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Pilot Project on Community-Based Coco Coir Processing

This pilot project in Hernani, Eastern Samar, empowers agrarian reform beneficiaries by processing coconut husks into fiber for marketable products. With key support from various agencies, the project has enabled sustainable production and sales growth. The project also showcases the area's rich natural resources and highlights collaboration between SMEs, LGUs, and academia. ESSU plays a pivotal role in training, capability building, and monitoring projects, contributing to poverty alleviation efforts.

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Pilot Project on Community-Based Coco Coir Processing

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  1. Pilot Project on Community-Based Coco Coir Processing Danilo P. Alura Eastern Samar State University Borongan, Eastern Samar

  2. Proponent/Implementor: Maunlad Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries MPC Padang, Hernani, Eastern Samar Cooperating Agencies: Hernani LGU, GTZ-PAPSI, Relevant Government Agencies and ESSU

  3. Samar Borongan Hernani Leyte

  4. Demographic Characteristics of Hernani

  5. Status of Coco Coir Project • The project started on 2003 • Members are the poorest of the poor in the community • Equipment and training of coop’s members – provided by PITAD Inc. based in Northern Samar • LGU provided the working and machinery shed, retting pool, water supply, electrical connection and working capital.

  6. relevant agencies and academe (ESSU) assisted the coop in capability building • Production volume – 3,500 coconut husk per • day or 300 – 400 kg fiber. • Gross sales (2 months operation = P100,000.00

  7. Currently produced products

  8. Status of the natural resource base • Total land Area - 4,811 has • A & D land - 2,694 has • Forested land - 2,207 has • Coconut land - 2,177 has • No. of coconut trees - 262,507 • Bearing - 195,311 • Non bearing - 45,151 • Senile - 22,045 • Annual copra production - 882 MT

  9. SME LGU-Academe linkages 1. Seaweed (Kappaphycus) Production Project Role of ESSU • Conduct training and technical assistance on seaweed farming • Capability building trainings • Marketing assistance

  10. 2. Coco Coir Processing Project Role of ESSC • Capability building trainings • Project monitoring and evaluation as member of the provincial technical working group on poverty alleviation program

  11. Thank You

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