RE: [Coconut:1649] Re: Philippines biggest coconut plantation to plant"Simba" variety
PLDT FOA- Gerardo Santos
I presume that the variety is supposed to be SYNVAR and not "simba". I guess PCA and the group headed by Congressman Salacnib Baterina will use the early generation progenies of what the PCA developed synthetic variety (SYNVAR). I was informed that they will also use other varieties.
regards,
Gerry Santos
-----Original Message-----
From: coc...@googlegroups.com on behalf of Severino Magat
Sent: Mon 1/28/2008 9:57 AM
To: coc...@googlegroups.com
Subject: [Coconut:1649] Re: Philippines biggest coconut plantation to plant"Simba" variety
Hugh,
I'm also not aware or familiar with the subject "simba" variety of coconut which accordingly will be utilized massively for the coconut plantation project in Northern Philippines to support the soon to be build CME plant. This has to be clarified with the writer of the news, better still, we can ask Gerry Santos, Coconut Breeder par-excellence (one with recognized worldwide knowlegde and experience on coconut genetic resources and management) to shed light on this obscure matter on coconut planting/genetic material .
Cheers,
Sev Magat
Hugh <hugh.h...@gmail.com> wrote:
Can anyone tell us about the "Simba" variety? I could not find it on
the CIRAD database .
What are its important characteristics? Is the name "Simba" from
Swahili for lion, from Tagalog for "go to church" (see www.websters-online-dictionary.org/translation/Keni+Unn/simba>) or is
it named for the Japanese football club (Simba FC) whose official
website was not reachable to me this
morning.
.
Hugh
On Jan 24, 10:03 pm, "Hugh Harries" wrote:
> http://business.inquirer.net/money/topstories/view/20080124-114389/Ja...
>
> Japanese firm starts $600-M coco plantation
>
> By Amy R. Remo
> Philippine Daily Inquirer
>
> Posted date: January 24, 2008
>
> MANILA, Philippines--A Japanese firm started last month a $600-million
> coconut plantation project in northern Luzon.
>
> Tokyo-based Pacific BioFields Corp., which has teamed up with local firm
> BioEnergy Northern Luzon Inc., will convert and develop about 600,000
> hectares of 'public and non-disposable' timberland and forest land into
> coconut plantations.
>
> Planting activities have started last month following the project's
> groundbreaking in Caunayan village in the town of Pagudpud in Ilocos Norte
> province.
>
> The plantation forms part of a bigger project that also involves the
> establishment of coconut methyl ester (CME), an essential component of
> biodiesel.
>
> In a statement, BioEnergy president Salacnib Baterina said the coconut
> plantation would be the biggest in the country.
>
> Baterina said the project would be beneficial to the residents of the area,
> considering the jobs it would create and the environment protection programs
> the company would implement.
>
> The coconut seedlings that will be used are the "Simba" variety, Baterina
> added.
>
> Pacific Biofields president Moriaki Hayashida, in the same statement, said
> the plan was to process the coconut produced in the plantation into CME.
>
> Hayashida added the joint venture would put up a CME plant in Curimao town
> in Ilocos Norte, which will process the coconuts produced in Northern Luzon.
>
> The entire output of the plant will be shipped to Japan to supply the
> country's growing demand for biofuels, both for fuel-dependent industries
> and manufacturing concerns.
>
> Hayashida said the plant's output "will not even be enough to fill Japan's
> huge biofuel requirement."
>
> Japan's total diesel requirement reaches 40 billion liters a year, and its
> plans for a CME blend of 5 percent will create a huge demand for this
> additive.
>
> Japan is one of the four Asian countries planning to mandate the blending of
> CME with petroleum diesel to reduce dependence on crude mineral oil.
>
> The Pacific BioFields and BioEnergy earlier forged an agreement with the
> Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) on this coconut
> planting and processing project.
>
> So far, 65,000 hectares have been identified by the DENR technical personnel
> as suitable planting areas, which spans from Pagudpud, Ilocos Norte, going
> up to Abulog town in nearby Cagayan province.
>
> Earlier, another Japanese firm, Toyo Engineering Corp., said it would also
> put up a P60-billion CME manufacturing plant in Ilocos.
>
> The venture will need some 600,000 hectares of coconut farms in new areas,
> including areas in the provinces of Pangasinan, Ilocos Sur, Ilocos Norte and
> La Union.
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Hugh Harries
Thank you for the information that this new project will be growing the synthetic coconut varieties that the APCC told us about in the Coconut Community Newsletter COCOMUNITY, VOL. XXXI NO.09, 15 May 2001.
Thanks to Mr. Gerardo Santos, Acting Center Manager of Philippine Coconut Authority's Zamboanga Research Center for pioneering in the development of a coconut synthetic variety, PCA Syn Var 001. The Philippines will soon have its first locally developed open-pollinated coconut variety.
As Sev said, with your recognized worldwide knowledge and experience on coconut genetic resources and management you have "shed light on coconut planting/genetic material" - but Sev, that is hardly an "obscure matter"!
And Carlos, if they concentrate on copra and ignore coir and shell then nothing has been learned from past experience.
I am hopeful that Verman[Bern] is right to expect they will also be producing coir geotextiles, cocopeat and shell charcoal for activated carbon, as well as chemical by-products from the CME process.
Hugh
Dear all,
I presume that the variety is supposed to be SYNVAR and not "simba". I guess PCA and the group headed by Congressman Salacnib Baterina will use the early generation progenies of what the PCA developed synthetic variety (SYNVAR). I was informed that they will also use other varieties.
regards,
Gerry Santos
Carlos B. Carpio
Hugh
You cannot expect Japanese investors, who are speculating on a
currently popular demand for biofuel resources, to know anything about
coconut production or marketing.
Even the Filipino investors may be looking first at profits and
overlooking sustainability.
But the PCA knows that the one-time leading role of the Philippines in
world coconut productions slipped when the USA started to grow its
own vegetable oils.
You suggest that if "others" are interested with the husk,shell and
water they can discuss the arrangements with the principal investors.
The "others" are your own coconut farmers, and there is no "if" about
their interest.
Please find out for them, and us, whether the Pacific BioFields and
BioEnergy agreement with the Department of Environment and Natural
Resources (DENR) on this coconut planting and processing project does
make allowance for husk and shell to contribute to overall
profitability and sustainability.
Many thanks
Hugh
On Jan 28, 7:53 am, "Carlos B. Carpio" <cbcar...@mozcom.com> wrote:
> Per initial discussion with the investors meat is their priority but if others are interested with the husk,shell and water then they can discuss the arrangements with the principal investors, I believe.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Hugh Harries
> To: coc...@googlegroups.com
> Sent: Monday, January 28, 2008 2:44 PM
> Subject: [Coconut:1655] Re: Philippines biggest coconut plantation to plant"Simba" variety
>
> Gerry,
>
> Thank you for the information that this new project will be growing the synthetic coconut varieties that the APCC told us about in the Coconut Community Newsletter COCOMUNITY, VOL. XXXI NO.09, 15 May 2001.
>
> Thanks to Mr. Gerardo Santos, Acting Center Manager of Philippine Coconut Authority's Zamboanga Research Center for pioneering in the development of a coconut synthetic variety, PCA Syn Var 001. The Philippines will soon have its first locally developed open-pollinated coconut variety.
>
> As Sev said, with your recognized worldwide knowledge and experience on coconut genetic resources and management you have "shed light on coconut planting/genetic material" - but Sev, that is hardly an "obscure matter"!
>
> And Carlos, if they concentrate on copra and ignore coir and shell then nothing has been learned from past experience.
>
> I am hopeful that Verman[Bern] is right to expect they will also be producing coir geotextiles, cocopeat and shell charcoal for activated carbon, as well as chemical by-products from the CME process.
>
> Hugh
>