by Ekrem Duman | Aug 26, 2026 | Mining, Agriculture & Resources, Philippines Company Stories
⚡ TL;DRDel Monte Pacific runs one of the world’s largest integrated pineapple operations in Mindanao and holds the Del Monte brand rights across several Asian markets. In 2014 it acquired the much larger United States consumer food business of the same...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 26, 2026 | Mining, Agriculture & Resources, Philippines Company Stories
⚡ TL;DRThe Philippines replaced rice import quotas with tariffs in 2019, allowing private traders to import freely. Retail rice prices fell, which benefited a hundred million consumers, and farm-gate prices for domestic palay collapsed, which hurt several...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 26, 2026 | Mining, Agriculture & Resources, Philippines Company Stories
⚡ TL;DRMindanao’s banana and pineapple plantations are among the Philippines’ largest agricultural export earners, supplying Japan, Korea, China and the Middle East. The industry now faces two simultaneous threats: a soil-borne fungal disease that...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 26, 2026 | Mining, Agriculture & Resources, Philippines Company Stories
⚡ TL;DRThe Philippines holds some of the world’s richest gold, copper and nickel geology and produces a small fraction of what that endowment would support. The reason is policy: open-pit bans imposed and lifted, moratoriums on new agreements applied and...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 26, 2026 | Mining, Agriculture & Resources, Philippines Company Stories
⚡ TL;DRThe Philippines is one of the world’s largest nickel ore producers, supplying Chinese stainless steel and battery supply chains. Almost all of it leaves as unprocessed ore, so the smelting, refining and chemical value is added abroad. Indonesia...
