Through the investment, Cargill s long-term efforts to support smallholder corn and coconut farmers will be expanded. This will include training on sustainable agricultural practices, and improved productivity and market access, and increasing the income of farmers.
Cargill has joined with non-governmental organisation Care Philippines to initiate a major agricultural regeneration project to assist key farming communities serving confectionery and wider food supply chains that have been hit by super typhoon Odette, reports Neill Barston.
Nine months since Supertyphoon Odette (international name Rai) felled over 3 million coconut trees in the province of Bohol, Cargill Philippines has partnered with CARE Philippines, Cebu-Bohol Relief and Rehabilitation Center (CRRC), and the Philippine Coconut Authority (PCA) to replant 100,000 coconut seedlings in devastated local communities through the RISE…