Why the Philippines Grow The Best Coconuts in the World?
Nature’s Blessings. Philippine archipelago, 11 degrees north of the Equator, is situated at the center of the Pacific “Ring of Fire” (a long stretch of volcanic belt along the Pacific Coasts from New Zealand to Alaska). Very fertile lands due to its bio-diverse tropical ecosystem… as nutrient-full coconut trees grow only in tropical countries, and the best ones, along coastal areas under these conditions… its long coastal areas (266,000 sq km) provide shore protection and serve as nutrient/mineral recycling reservoir as the cycle of life flows from its mountainous forest lands, hosting a unique combination of seawater and freshwater, constantly percolated by its 200 volcanoes (21 active), and cooled by its lagoons and lakes, and fanned by about 27 typhoons hitting ground a year, tagging along its heat-quenching monsoon rains, with an average of 250 centimeters a year, through most of its 7,107 islands… undisputedly provide a perfect eco-system to grow the BEST COCONUTS (Cocos Nuc
