{"id":9077,"date":"2013-11-19T11:39:37","date_gmt":"2013-11-19T16:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/?p=9077"},"modified":"2013-11-19T11:39:37","modified_gmt":"2013-11-19T16:39:37","slug":"opportunity-for-coconuts-in-central-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/opportunity-for-coconuts-in-central-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Opportunity for Coconuts in Central America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/coconuts1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9079\" title=\"coconuts\" src=\"http:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/coconuts1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"488\" srcset=\"https:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/coconuts1.jpg 750w, https:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/coconuts1-300x195.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the world&#8217;s super-foods, coconuts offer so much and are so abundant here in Panama.\u00a0 Other areas of the world are not so lucky.<\/p>\n<p>Asian coconut production is expected to suffer a crisis, an event that could open markets for Central American growers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"description\">The UN Agency for Food and Agriculture (FAO) is warning of an impending crisis in <span class=\"hlink\">coconut<\/span> production in Asian countries which are major producers globally, due  to aging plantations, whose yields have fallen from 100 coconuts per  tree year, to just 40.<\/p>\n<p>Sector productivity is increasing by 2% a year, while global demand is  growing by 10%. In Asia, the coconut palm that characterizes the  landscape from the Philippines to India, is facing a crisis because  ageing palm crops are less productive, reducing the harvest of the  commodity which is used in food, fuel, soaps and cosmetics.<\/p>\n<p>It is estimated that the harvest in Asia Pacific is currently roughly  forty coconuts per tree per year, compared with a potential yield of one  hundred. This is because after sixty years, reforestation is advisable  of the trees, many of which were planted between fifty and sixty years  ago, do not produce enough. Meanwhile, it is considered a source of food  and income for millions of people: in the Philippines, for example,  coconut exports account for 5% of GDP. Other major producers are  Indonesia and India.<\/p>\n<p class=\"link_source\">Source: Food And Agriculture Organization of the United Nations<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the world&#8217;s super-foods, coconuts offer so much and are so abundant here in Panama.\u00a0 Other areas<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-articles-panama-perpsective"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.0 (Yoast SEO v28.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Opportunity for Coconuts in Central America -<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link 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