Hop farmers in the Pacific Northwest use roughly 425,000 miles of twine each season to string their trellises by hand, but a new machine can do much of the hard work for them. Hop plants are ...

LEGAZPI CITY – A coconut coir twining machine has been developed in answer to the need for a highly mechanized process for the coir industry. The device was crafted by a team of engineers of the ...

MATI CITY, Davao Oriental—Between gold and coco coir, a housewife here testifies the latter makes them eat, and sends her child to school. Michelle Luguib, mother of two and a wife of a small-scale ...

MYRNA Unabia used to start her day cooking rice or boiling root crops for her family’s meal. She would tend her garden or collect copra, but she would often stay idle at home. Roughly a year ago, ...

Coco coir is given a new lease on life, as the village cooperative finds a way to make productive use of waste LANAO DEL NORTE, Philippines – Myrna Unabia, 34, begins her day cooking rice or boiling ...

It is a most appealing business. The raw materials are abundant and, therefore, cheap. And the demand for the finished product is increasing. That is what Pitad, Inc., a company formed by a Northern ...