A project to provide coconut farmers with advice over their mobile phones aims to help them cash in on a growing market and lift them out of poverty By Thin Lei Win

BANGKOK, May 10 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Generosa Gonato’s mobile phone beeped with a warning for the coconut farmer in the southern Philippines to be vigilant against bud rot, a common disease that is fatal for coconut trees. The message included the symptoms and how to treat it.

“So I monitored my trees and discovered some have it,” Gonato told the Thomson Reuters Foundation by phone. She followed the advice – cutting down and destroying the affected trees quickly to stop the disease becoming an outbreak. Tiếp tục đọc “How to milk the coconut boom? Philippine farmers check their phones” →