{"id":19623,"date":"2012-03-20T14:13:49","date_gmt":"2012-03-20T18:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=19623"},"modified":"2012-03-20T15:27:50","modified_gmt":"2012-03-20T19:27:50","slug":"family-island-farmers-encouraged-to-build-coconut-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/03\/family-island-farmers-encouraged-to-build-coconut-industry","title":{"rendered":"Farmers Encouraged To Build Coconut Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_19626\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19626\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19626\" title=\"coconuts\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/coconuts.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/coconuts.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/coconuts-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19626\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">coconuts<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Bahamas Agricultural and Industrial Corporation (BAIC) has started to distribute coconuts resistant to lethal yellowing to farmers on Family Island as a bid to help build a coconut industry.<\/p>\n<p>These Maypan hybrids and Panama dwarfs are going initially to North and South Abaco, Long Island, North and South Andros, Eleuthera, and Exuma.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese are varieties that are resistant to lethal yellowing, they begin bearing very low to the ground, and they last a long time,\u201d said BAIC assistant general manager (agriculture) Arnold Dorsett.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are very productive varieties and we look forward to farmers harvesting coconuts for a long time at arms length.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The coconuts varieties were purchased from Jamaica, which already has a flourishing coconut industry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Maypan and Panama Dwarf contain lots of water and they have good quality,\u201d said Mr Dorsett. \u201cThey are Jamaica\u2019s best varieties.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The initiative is the idea of BAIC executive chairman Edison M Key, the Member of Parliament for South Abaco.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the goal of encouraging Family Island farmers to build a coconut industry, BAIC has started to distribute Jamaican-imported coconuts resistant to disease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[80,23,59],"class_list":["post-19623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-agriculture","tag-food","tag-islands"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}