Halmahera Nut Jobs

North Halmahera farmers have succeeded in processing their coconut harvests into finished products. Their innovation has given them financial benefits and expanded their economic activities.

February 1, 2012

ANITA Sosori fed coconut meat into a grating machine, then she poured the heaping grated shreds of coconut into a large container. "This material will be processed into coconut oil," she told Tempo, during a visit to the factory, Cahaya Halmahera Utara, in Gamsungi village, North Halmahera, last week. The 56-year-old woman said that since she joined the Gamsungi Indah Farmers Group in 2010 to manage the factory, she and her husband learned how to

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