Asia Pacific Coconut Community's rebuttal to American Heart Association's recent article
Posted Date : To 08 Dec, 2017
ASIAN AND PACIFIC COCONUT COMMUNITY
The Asian and Pacific Coconut Community (APCC) is an intergovernmental organization of coconut producing countries organized in 1969 under the aegis of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN-ESCAP). The APCC Secretariat is located in Jakarta, Indonesia and is headed by an executive director.
The APCC has 18 coconut producing member countries accounting for over 90 percent of world coconut production and exports of coconut products. The APCC member countries include: Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, India, Indonesia, Kiribati, Malaysia, Marshall Islands, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Tonga, Vanuatu, and Vietnam. Jamaica and Kenya are associate member countries of the APCC.