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In 2003 the government ended KIK’s monopoly powers over marketing. A year later KIK suffered losses that forced the group to call in liquidator, PNG Coconut Commodities, Rex Paki, who in April 2004, sold the Manang mill to Australian-owned Coconut Oil Production Madang Ltd (COPM, owned by Donald Brownlie Fleming) for K7.8 million (US$2.4 ...
A jeepney takes tourists around the Villa Escudero grounds in San Pablo, Laguna, Philippines. Villa Escudero Plantations and Resort (Tagalog: [ˈbɪlja ʔɛskʊˈdero]) is an 800 hectares (2,000 acres) of working coconut plantation and hacienda in Tiaong, Quezon, 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) south of the city of San Pablo, Laguna on the border with Quezon. [1]
The island features a coconut plantation and many streams, and is circled by great beaches and fringing reefs with a boat opening and a large lagoon on the northeastern side. Plantation buildings and a school remain. Kanacea is privately owned. [3] Its main economic activity was centered on copra and sugarcane, and it retains a coconut ...
For the reasonable sum of $695,000, you could make like Scarlett O'Hara on your very own plantation, complete with formal gardens, several servants' cottages, even a peach orchard. The catch, for ...
In 1903, Levers Pacific Plantations Limited purchased 50,000 acres of coconut plantations from Lars Nielsen in the British Solomon Islands for £6,500, and in 1906 the company purchased the coconut plantation concessions in the Solomon Islands from the Pacific Islands Company Ltd for £5,000. By 1905 the company had acquired approximately ...
In about 1857 a whaling ship put ashore William Greig who carried out planting of coconut trees to expand the production of copra, and who also began planting coconut trees on Washington Island. [9] Eventually the sons of Greig owned the plantation with Father Emmanuel Rougier [ fr ] until he sold his interest to the Fanning Island Limited, and ...
Englishman Sam Atkinson purchased the island in 1901 and established a coconut plantation, harvesting copra. The plantation included the Atkinson family home, as well as copra drying sheds and living quarters for workers. Copra was exported by boat. When Sam Atkinson died in 1931, his wife Edith kept on managing the plantation.
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