SOLOMON ISLANDS COCONUT VALUE CHAIN ANALYSIS
SOLOMON ISLANDS COCONUT VALUE CHAIN ANALYSIS JANUARY 2014 (Revised February 2014) Coconuts and copra are the Solomon Islands’ longest standing 1. Improve the profitability of the copra value chain mainly through improvement of copra quality using a combination of regulatory measures, the strengthening of linkages between the
The Solomon Islands Quality Copra Oil Value Chain for the Domestic Market: The Chottu Coconut Products Case Study
PIFON visits the Solomons for High Grade Copra Oil Value
March 2024 The PIFON consultancy team for the Coconut Industry Development Project (CIDP) has just recently returned from Honiara, Solomon Islands after undertaking a Value Chain Case Study on High Grade Copra Oil. CIDP is an EU supported project implemented by the Pacific Community (SPC-CIDP) through the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States …
The Solomon Islands Quality Copra Oil Value Chain for the Domestic Market: the Chottu Coconut Products Case Study / prepared by Andrew McGregor and Moses Pelomo 1. Coconut — Solomon Islands. 2. Coconut industry — Solomon Islands. 3. Coconut oil — Solomon Islands. 4. Coconut products — Solomon Islands. 5.
SOLOMON ISLANDS COCOA VALUE CHAIN ANALYSIS
Solomon Islands cocoa value chain; and Section 6 concludes the main findings of the value chain analysis and makes recommendations for future interventions in the cocoa industry. 2. POLICIES AND STRATEGIES . This section describes SIG’s national and sector policies and strategies, the state of infrastructure and
Coconut Industry (Solomon Islands) Coconut Industry Value Chain Coconut and copra traders (200 SMEs), copra millers (11 SMEs, 4 large), producers of coconut oil (40), coconut oil exporter (1), copra exporters (5), coconut product manufacturers (3), coconut exporters (2)
Cocoa and Coconut in the Solomon Islands: A Family Affair
Cocoa and Coconut in the Solomon Islands, A Family Affair, is an explorative study that complements and builds upon existing studies of the cocoa and coconut value chains in Solomon Islands. This qualitative study combines an inclusive value chain approach with a gender relations framework. The
Jack Chottu, the managing director of Chottu Coconut Products in the Solomon Islands, is laughing as he explains his relationship with the farmers who supply him with copra for his oil milling business. ‘If I just go and talk, talk, talk to my farmers, they’re tired of hearing me!
The Solomon Islands Quality Copra Oil Value Chain
The Solomon Islands Quality Copra Oil Value Chain for the Domestic Market: The Chottu Coconut Products Case Study
The inaugural meeting of a new Coconut Technology Centre (CTC) Foundation (Solomon Islands) trustees was held in Honiara, Wednesday 10th September 2014 . The CTC is registered as a charitable trust. “This development is a dream come true and an answer to prayer over many years” says Dr Dan Etherington, founder of Kokonut Pacific Australia and inventor of the Direct Micro Expelling
Newsletter - World Rural Forum
ciated enterprises upon which value chain road maps are to be developed. They are as follows: VO for domestic markets – With the anaban o., Rabi case study High quality copra oil – With the hottu & o., Solomon Islands case study oconut veneer – With the Valebasoga, Fiji case study
GET PRICE
Coconut Sector Review
Figure 1 Value chain map of the pacific coconut industry Source: PARDI (2011) Copra and crude coconut oil (CNO) continue to be the main commodities produced by the coconut industry in the pacific. Both are exported to a few large processing companies, primarily in Asia, for manufacture into
GET PRICE
THE COPRA PROBLEM & DME SOLUTION | Kokonut Pacific
THE COPRA PROBLEM Conventional coconut oil comes from dried coconut flesh, called copra. Copra is dried in a wood-fuelled kiln, or in the sun, over a period of a few days. It is time-consuming, dirty, lonely, arduous, male-dominated, fuel-intensive and low-paying work. Many farmers consider it a form of slavery. The journey of the copra from farm to mill is interesting:
GET PRICE
Breaking the Chains | Kokonut Pacific
In September 1994, I was sitting with a local man on a pile of copra bags on Malu’u beach, North Malaita, in the Solomon Islands. We were waiting to load the motorboats plying their way to and from the coastal trading ship anchored 500 meters offshore. Working with 60 kg bags of copra was hard, dirty and smelly work. I was in Malu’u conducting experiments with a new technology we were
GET PRICE
Cocoa Value Chain Review - University of Adelaide
Cocoa Value Chain Review . COCONUT CHAIN REVIEW Cocoa is currently the 3rd most important export earner for Solomon Islands and the 4th for Vanuatu (PARDI Facts 2011) the face of declining returns from copra (for crude coconut oil). After Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu and the Solomon Islands have the most significant cocoa industries
GET PRICE
THE COPRA PROBLEM & DME SOLUTION | Kokonut Pacific
THE COPRA PROBLEM Conventional coconut oil comes from dried coconut flesh, called copra. Copra is dried in a wood-fuelled kiln, or in the sun, over a period of a few days. It is time-consuming, dirty, lonely, arduous, male-dominated, fuel-intensive and low-paying work. Many farmers consider it a form of slavery. The journey of the copra from farm to mill is interesting:
GET PRICE
Newsletter - World Rural Forum
ciated enterprises upon which value chain road maps are to be developed. They are as follows: VO for domestic markets – With the anaban o., Rabi case study High quality copra oil – With the hottu & o., Solomon Islands case study oconut veneer – With the Valebasoga, Fiji case study
GET PRICE
Coconut Sector Review
Figure 1 Value chain map of the pacific coconut industry Source: PARDI (2011) Copra and crude coconut oil (CNO) continue to be the main commodities produced by the coconut industry in the pacific. Both are exported to a few large processing companies, primarily in Asia, for manufacture into
GET PRICE
Closed Tender #1041032 - Consultant - Assessment
Chottu Coconut Products Company, which is located in western Guadalcanal, was the subject of a value chain study for the domestic oil industry in the Solomon Islands. The launch of the Value Chain report was conducted at this location and a number of processing factors were examined in detail. Throughout the industry, there is a fundamental
GET PRICE
Breaking the Chains | Kokonut Pacific
In September 1994, I was sitting with a local man on a pile of copra bags on Malu’u beach, North Malaita, in the Solomon Islands. We were waiting to load the motorboats plying their way to and from the coastal trading ship anchored 500 meters offshore. Working with 60 kg bags of copra was hard, dirty and smelly work. I was in Malu’u conducting experiments with a new technology we were
GET PRICE
New Agriculturist: Country profile - Solomon Islands
Valuable breeding herds of pigs and cattle were also killed or stolen. There are now only 5,000 cattle in the Solomon Islands, around one-fifth of pre-conflict numbers, and genetic quality is declining. The country imports 250-300 tonnes of beef each year. Most villages are coastal and smallscale fishing is an important source of protein.
GET PRICE
Improving financial well-being of the excluded in Solomon
The Australian Government and the Pacific Financial Inclusion Programme (PFIP) have supported the endeavors of ANZ bank through grant and technical assistance. The vision is to design, test and scale innovative models for digitizing payments across coconut value chain, given its significance in Solomon Islands.
GET PRICE
Closed Tender #1041032 - Consultant - Assessment
Chottu Coconut Products Company, which is located in western Guadalcanal, was the subject of a value chain study for the domestic oil industry in the Solomon Islands. The launch of the Value Chain report was conducted at this location and a number of processing factors were examined in detail. Throughout the industry, there is a fundamental
GET PRICE
Breaking the Chains | Kokonut Pacific
In September 1994, I was sitting with a local man on a pile of copra bags on Malu’u beach, North Malaita, in the Solomon Islands. We were waiting to load the motorboats plying their way to and from the coastal trading ship anchored 500 meters offshore. Working with 60 kg bags of copra was hard, dirty and smelly work. I was in Malu’u conducting experiments with a new technology we were
GET PRICE
Improving financial well-being of the excluded in Solomon
The Australian Government and the Pacific Financial Inclusion Programme (PFIP) have supported the endeavors of ANZ bank through grant and technical assistance. The vision is to design, test and scale innovative models for digitizing payments across coconut value chain, given its significance in Solomon Islands.
GET PRICE
NATIONAL FOOD SECURITY, FOOD SAFETY AND NUTRITION POLICY
Government of Solomon Islands NATIONAL FOOD SECURITY, FOOD SAFETY AND NUTRITION POLICY 2010 – 2015 of appropriate quality and safety, supplied through domestic production and/ or imports (including food aid). fish and copra. Most Solomon Islanders (83-84% of the population) live in rural areas, and these
GET PRICE
Coconut Market-Value Added - Solomon Islands Jobs
Coconut Market-Value Added Processing Part 2 An assignment for Strongim Bisnis, a program supported by the Australian Government in Solomon Islands. Duration: Over 15 days in April 2024 Specialist inputs: One consultant is sought ARF rate: Up to C4 Background to the Strongim Bisnis program Strongim Bisnis is an AUD14
GET PRICE
Meet The Team | Kokonut Pacific
DME was awarded a Medal by EXPO2000 in Germany as a sustainable “World Project.”. In 2006 Kokonut Pacific’s work in the Solomon Islands was awarded the Ryutaro Hashimoto Gold Award by the Asia Pacific Forum for Environment and Development (APFED) for its work in ‘Rehabilitating a rural economy with coconut oil production.’ In 2008, Dan was awarded Membership of the of the
GET PRICE
Coconut Industry Development regional meeting in Rarotonga
The Cook Islands Ministry of Agriculture is pleased to be hosting a Coconut Industry Development for the Pacific (CIDP) meeting in Rarotonga. The Minister of Agriculture, the Hon. Rose Toki Brown welcomed participants from Samoa, Tonga, Fiji, Republic of the Marshall Islands, Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands to the final meeting of the project.
GET PRICE
Detailed Project Report On Coconut Oil Mill
The Solomon Islands Quality Copra Oil Value Chain For . Ccps tinytech oil mill18 cidp european unionfunded coconut industry development for the pacific project cno crude coconut oil from crushed copra the process for identifying coconut value chains for detailed. Chat Online; Coconut Oil Machinery Kerala, Coconut Oil Machinery
GET PRICE
NATIONAL FOOD SECURITY, FOOD SAFETY AND NUTRITION POLICY
Government of Solomon Islands NATIONAL FOOD SECURITY, FOOD SAFETY AND NUTRITION POLICY 2010 – 2015 National Food Security, Food Safety and Nutrition Policy 2010-2015 3.1 Vision 10 fish and copra. Most Solomon Islanders (83-84% of the population) live in rural areas, and these
GET PRICE
Coconut oil as a fuel in the Pacific Islands
Coconut oil as a fuel in the Pacific Islands. of copra in Fiji, Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea and Kiribati. The local value of copra is further affected through the high costs of
GET PRICE
Media Release - Coconut Industry Development regional
Key achievements over the past four years include supporting training of more than 400 farmers and government officers from 15 countries with training, completing a Market Study on Coconut Products for Pacific Producers, and developing a Value Chain Roadmap of three priority products for the Pacific: Coconut Oil, Quality Copra Oil and
GET PRICE
Solomon Islands Compendium - Soggy Paws
Solomon Islands Compendium A Compilation of Guidebook References and Cruising Reports Covering the Solomon Islands, Off the East Coast of Australia IMPORTANT: USE ALL INFORMATION IN THIS DOCUMENT AT YOUR OWN RISK!! Rev 2024.9 – September 20, 2024 We welcome updates to this guide! (especially for places we have no cruiser information on)
GET PRICE
The Naturalist and his ‘Beautiful Islands’: Charles
3. Commerce, trade and labour. Understanding the history of European contact with the Solomon Islands and the nature of the local peoples’ social, cultural and economic lives is important if we are to appreciate the challenges that faced Charles Woodford, first as a young self-funded naturalist, and later as a colonial administrator.
GET PRICE
