Coconut farmers in Southeast Asia struggle as palm oil muscles in on them

Mongabay
Mar 30, 2020, 12:10 am256 pts
GENERAL NAKAR, Philippines — Lucio Tena, 64, has been growing coconuts on his 20-hectare (49-acre) farm in General Nakar, on the east coast of the Philippine island of Luzon, for more than four decades. But the situation facing farmers like him today is the worst he’s experienced in his lifetime. “The…

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