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Pola is home to nation’s purest virgin coconut oil
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POLA, Oriental Mindoro – This smallest, and probably the poorest, town in Oriental Mindoro is home to the country’s best virgin coconut oil.
The town’s virgin coconut oil contains the only "pure organic lauric acid" or POLA, which can only be found in this town. To health enthusiasts, lauric acid is the source of medium chain fatty acid, an element which is closest to mother’s milk.
Lauric acid is present in coconut oil as it provides energy, boosts the immune system, counters bacteria, virus, fungus, and allergies, according to health experts. "But, not all coconut oil contains the highest concentration of lauric acid."
Those virgin coconut oils produced in Negros, Quezon, Laguna, and Batangas, and Manila "contain only 48 percent of lauric acid." But "those produced in Pola carry the highest concentration of organic lauric acid, which is unbelievably 90 percent," they said.
The main reason why Pola produces pure organic lauric acid, which is unique to the town, is because it is a "prime land organic area."
Its unspoiled lush vegetation and chemical-free environment, and its rustic character produce the best and healthy coconuts. In turn, these coconuts grown in the town produce the virgin coconut oil with the highest concentration of pure organic lauric acid, the experts said.
Pola, out of 14 municipalities and a city, is the only coconut-producing town in this province. Some 10,000 hectares of the total land are of its 24 coastal barangays, which are "all prime land organic areas," are planted to coconut.
Pure organic is "present in locations, which are pollution-free, chemical-free, petroleum-free, fertilizer-free, and insecticide-free," according to Ramon A. Tan, president of Carica, producer of POLA virgin coconut oil.
Pola, the hometown of Vice President Noli "Kabayan" de Castro, is a prime organic land are because it has rainforests and green agriculture environment, volcanic acid, abundant oceans, rivers, lakes, creeks, falls and springs, chemical-free, clean mountain air, crystal-spring water, and pertoleum smog-free.
The presence of POLA in the area drove the Pola municipal government to forge a joint venture agreement with Carica to mass produce virgin coconut oil for national and international markets, according to Mayor Alex M. Aranas, the executive vice president of League of Municipalities of Oriental Mindoro.
virgin coconut oil project in the tow got a big boost when De Castro joined its launching recently in Manila to signify its importance for the economy of the people of Pola, and the health wellbeing of the people, in general, according to Aranas.
"The town will become a unique production center for virgin coconut oil," Tan said, explaining that the Pola municipal government, the Carica, and the Mindoro Kabuhayan Foundation Inc. (MKFI) have joined hands to put up a small virgin coco oil processing center in all the 24 coconut-producing barangays in the municipality.
Aside from the health benefits that consumers will derive from Pola’s virgin coconut oil, it will also provide the much-needed employment to some 5,000 townsfolk living in the 24 barangays. Initially, according to Tan, "70 islanders will be employed, but as capacity increases, employment will correspondingly increase."
Once the project is in full operation, the value of the coconut will increase from P3.50 to P10 per nut. "Sa simula ay 5,000 nuts or 500 kilos ng virgin coconut oil ang mapa-process. Pero pag ang skills ay na-develop na, the number may double, triple, or quadruple which will give more income to more people in my town," Aranas said, stressing that P800 income daily will be derived by a family of four from the project.
Aside from the economic benefits that can be derived from the project, the health care program in the municipal government will soon launch "Botelya Sa Barangay." Part of the profit generated from it will be used to distribute free bottles of virgin coconut oil to every family to reduce ailments.
The Botelya sa Barangay, a brainchild of Aranas, will not only reduce the budget of the cash-strapped municipality for its expensive medical care program, but "it will also provide the poor folk of Pola free and effective medical assistance and remedial cure in cases of ailments right at their fingertips."
As a fourth-class, sleepy municipality aiming to rise, Pola is "setting a model of rural production system which can be replicated all over the Philippines," said Tan, adding that: "If a small municipality of 30,000 can do it, then the whole country can do it. And Pola is the best example of what can be done."
September 15, 2004, Manila Bulletin
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The town’s virgin coconut oil contains the only "pure organic lauric acid" or POLA, which can only be found in this town. To health enthusiasts, lauric acid is the source of medium chain fatty acid, an element which is closest to mother’s milk.
Lauric acid is present in coconut oil as it provides energy, boosts the immune system, counters bacteria, virus, fungus, and allergies, according to health experts. "But, not all coconut oil contains the highest concentration of lauric acid."
Those virgin coconut oils produced in Negros, Quezon, Laguna, and Batangas, and Manila "contain only 48 percent of lauric acid." But "those produced in Pola carry the highest concentration of organic lauric acid, which is unbelievably 90 percent," they said.
The main reason why Pola produces pure organic lauric acid, which is unique to the town, is because it is a "prime land organic area."
Its unspoiled lush vegetation and chemical-free environment, and its rustic character produce the best and healthy coconuts. In turn, these coconuts grown in the town produce the virgin coconut oil with the highest concentration of pure organic lauric acid, the experts said.
Pola, out of 14 municipalities and a city, is the only coconut-producing town in this province. Some 10,000 hectares of the total land are of its 24 coastal barangays, which are "all prime land organic areas," are planted to coconut.
Pure organic is "present in locations, which are pollution-free, chemical-free, petroleum-free, fertilizer-free, and insecticide-free," according to Ramon A. Tan, president of Carica, producer of POLA virgin coconut oil.
Pola, the hometown of Vice President Noli "Kabayan" de Castro, is a prime organic land are because it has rainforests and green agriculture environment, volcanic acid, abundant oceans, rivers, lakes, creeks, falls and springs, chemical-free, clean mountain air, crystal-spring water, and pertoleum smog-free.
The presence of POLA in the area drove the Pola municipal government to forge a joint venture agreement with Carica to mass produce virgin coconut oil for national and international markets, according to Mayor Alex M. Aranas, the executive vice president of League of Municipalities of Oriental Mindoro.
virgin coconut oil project in the tow got a big boost when De Castro joined its launching recently in Manila to signify its importance for the economy of the people of Pola, and the health wellbeing of the people, in general, according to Aranas.
"The town will become a unique production center for virgin coconut oil," Tan said, explaining that the Pola municipal government, the Carica, and the Mindoro Kabuhayan Foundation Inc. (MKFI) have joined hands to put up a small virgin coco oil processing center in all the 24 coconut-producing barangays in the municipality.
Aside from the health benefits that consumers will derive from Pola’s virgin coconut oil, it will also provide the much-needed employment to some 5,000 townsfolk living in the 24 barangays. Initially, according to Tan, "70 islanders will be employed, but as capacity increases, employment will correspondingly increase."
Once the project is in full operation, the value of the coconut will increase from P3.50 to P10 per nut. "Sa simula ay 5,000 nuts or 500 kilos ng virgin coconut oil ang mapa-process. Pero pag ang skills ay na-develop na, the number may double, triple, or quadruple which will give more income to more people in my town," Aranas said, stressing that P800 income daily will be derived by a family of four from the project.
Aside from the economic benefits that can be derived from the project, the health care program in the municipal government will soon launch "Botelya Sa Barangay." Part of the profit generated from it will be used to distribute free bottles of virgin coconut oil to every family to reduce ailments.
The Botelya sa Barangay, a brainchild of Aranas, will not only reduce the budget of the cash-strapped municipality for its expensive medical care program, but "it will also provide the poor folk of Pola free and effective medical assistance and remedial cure in cases of ailments right at their fingertips."
As a fourth-class, sleepy municipality aiming to rise, Pola is "setting a model of rural production system which can be replicated all over the Philippines," said Tan, adding that: "If a small municipality of 30,000 can do it, then the whole country can do it. And Pola is the best example of what can be done."
September 15, 2004, Manila Bulletin
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