Tuesday, November 29, 2005
Canned pineapple tops N. Mindanao's export products
CANNED pineapple has continued to top the list of export products of Northern Mindanao, but three of the region's top 20 products are derived from coconuts.
Data at the Bureau of Customs for Northern Mindanao show that during the first 10 months, this year, the region's top 20 export commodities brought to various destinations outside the country totaled 5,192,482.312 tons in volume, valued at about US$251,175,000.
Lawyer Roberto M. Sacramento, Customs district collector, said Canned Pineapple with a volume of 199,021.362 tons posted the highest export value of about US$76,546,000, followed by Sintered Ore, with a volume of 3,777,751 tons at around US$36,791,000.
Fatty Alcohol came in 3rd, with 166,857.287 tons at approximately US$27,276,000, Ordinary Portland Cement, 4th, with 462,970.490 tons at about US$11,703,000, Everyday Milk Powder, 5th, with 6,483.423 tons at more or less US$11,566,000, and Philippine Cane Sugar was 8th, with 22,557.940 tons at around US$7,882,000.
Farmin was 9th, with 3,663.759 tons at estimated US$7,462,000, and Alkyl Methyl Amine, 10th, with 3,556.675 tons at about US$7,229,000.
The others following are Steel Scrap, 11th, Cement Clinker, 12th, Limestone Cement, 13th, Rubberboots, 14th, KD Finished Lumber and Wood Products, 15th, Philippine Cane Molasses, 20th.
Sacramento, however, said three of these top 20 exports are derived from coconut namely Desiccated Coconut, 6th in the list, Philippine Crude Coconut Oil, 7th, and Coconut Shell Charcoal, 16th.
Meanwhile, the government is poised to expand the coconut areas in the entire country by 1.35 million hectares at a cost of P13.45 billion up to the year 2010 as it still targets to double coconut oil and other export products.
Just recently, the Philippine Coconut Authority has embarked on a research extending the shelf life of fresh coconut juice in light of an expanding market in North America, the Middle East and Asia, which are eager to gobble up natural health foods.
In a related development, Japanese Ambassador Ryuichiro Yamazaki announced Japan's approval to finance a P10.6-million research project dubbed "Production Improvement and Market Development of Coconut Toddy and Sap Wine in the Philippines" under the Fourth Non-Project grant Assistance-Countervalue Fund. (Press release)
(November 29, 2005 issue)
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