Samoa's coconut oil exports have restarted, despite village supplier frustrations at the mill's stop-go operations, low buying prices and delayed payments.
The Coconut Oil Production Samoa, or COPS, mill exported 597-thousand dollars worth of oil in February, the first shipment out of the country in ten months.
Opposition MP's say frustrated villagers sold unprocessed coconuts as they didn't earn enough money by turning them into copra and selling it at the state-owned mill.
There are calls to change the company, COPS, which won the government tender to run the copra mill.