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Rising demand for coconuts in Asia driving prices up
PETALING JAYA: The price rise of coconuts in the country is partially due to an increase in demand within the Asian region.Malaysian Agricultural and Development Institute (Mar...
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Coconut milk price increases to RM9 per kilo
KUALA TERENGGANU, Dec 11 — The price of coconuts has gone up to RM2.20 each, resulting in the price of coconut milk increasing to RM9 per kilogramme (kg).Checks by Bernam...
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Benefits Of Eating Chocolate: Weekly Cocoa Consumption May Prevent Diabetes, And 3 Other Health Conditions
Growing up, we were told too much chocolate could lead to bad teeth and weight gain. Despite mom's warning, we'd sneak a few Hershey's Kisses from our back pocket for t...
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The end of coconut water? The world’s trendiest nut is under threat of species collapse
“Orange juice for breakfast is over,” an investor interested in creating large, fair trade coconut plantations recently joked to me. These days, coconut water is king....
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The World’s Coconuts Are in Danger
In this day and age, coconuts seem to be, somehow, everything at once. You can buy oil from coconuts—not to be confused with butter from coconuts—and flour and sugar an...
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Chocolate Industry Warned to Invest in Cocoa Production
Cocoa farmers from the Ivory Coast are urging the chocolate industry to step up sustainability and fairtrade efforts or risk losing entire generations of producers who will be forc...
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Malaysian Cocoa Exports Exceed 2015 Figures
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia's earnings from the export of cocoa in the Jan-June period has exceeded RM2.7 billion this year, said Cocoa Board's chairman Datuk Dr Marcus Makin Mo...
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Olam Raises Cocoa Shortage Forecast After Poor Africa Harvest
Chocolate makers aren’t getting a break anytime soon.A smaller-than-forecast cocoa harvest is expected to increase a global shortage, which is the worst in decades, accor...
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Shortage of coconut
Just when the world craves for it, the Caribbean’s running out of the commodityAT the worst possible time, the Caribbean is running short of one of its most emblematic pr...
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Coconuts Go Upscale, Boosting Price of Conventional Coconut Oil
Coconut oil prices have soared nearly 20% in a month, largely because of the growing popularity of specialty products such as coconut water.In supermarkets, coconuts are being ...
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