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ACDI/VOCA – USDA Request for Application (RFA)

October 21, 2016

Who: ACDI/VOCA through the Mindanao Productivity in Agriculture Commerce & Trade (MinPACT) Project, a United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) funded project. What: Is seeking grant applications from interested Mindanao coffee, cacao, and coconut organizations and enterprises to improve and strengthen their post-harvest handling and processing equipment and systems. When: The Request for Application (RFA) package is available… Read More

National Coffee Summit to Bring International Coffee Stars

August 2, 2016

For the past 8 years, the country’s coffee sector gets together every October in what is called the National Coffee Summit. It is held simultaneously with a trade event called Coffee Origins.  The annual meet is organized by the Philippine Coffee Board, Inc. (PCBI), a private sector-led advocacy to promote Philippine coffee domestically and to… Read More

Coffee Quality Institute Partners With Philippine Coffee Board Inc.

July 27, 2016

The prestigious Coffee Quality Institute (CQI), a US-based institution promoting specialty coffee, came to the country recently to hold talks with coffee stakeholders along with the country’s preeminent coffee organization, Philippine Coffee Board, Inc. (PCBI). Senior Adviser Ted Lingle (known in the coffee world as the “coffee guru”) along with CQI Operations Director Lisa Conway met… Read More

Landbank and PCBI Continue Pick Red Events

January 15, 2016

  For the second year now, Landbank is sponsoring some events with Philippine Coffee Board Inc. (PCBI) to raise the quality of coffee especially in Northern Luzon. New areas, like Kasibu and Santa Fe Nueva Vizcaya, are the target areas for new coffee plantings of the  Arabica variety. The Pick Red campaign has made farmers more… Read More

Cavite Coffee: Good Buy or Goodbye?

January 13, 2016

Cavite was known as the coffee capital of the Philippines, producing the coffee needs of Manila as well as other parts of the country. It may have experienced difficult times over the past decades but it doesn’t mean it cannot regain its glorious past.Believing that it can be done, Philippine Coffee Board Inc. (PCBI) offered… Read More

Pick Red Goes To Cavite

December 20, 2015

Innovative campaign raises farmers incomes by 30% Cavite had been sharing the Luzon coffee glory with Batangas until the Cavite AA variety made it to export and became a world-class “in demand” origin for Robusta and  of late, for specialty Kalaboso Barako or Liberica. But the Philippine Coffee Board Inc (PCBI) knows that Cavite coffee… Read More

APEC Sidelines: What Coffee Will the CEOs Be Drinking?

November 16, 2015

Philippine Coffee, of course. Through the invitation of Price Waterhouse Coopers or PwC to fuel their Knowledge Café at the APEC CEO SUMMIT, The Philippine Coffee Board Inc. (PCBI) will be serving the award-winning coffee from Kapatagan, Mt. Apo, Davao to the APEC visitors. There also will be coffee from famed Cordillera care of the… Read More

BENGUET joins pick red campaign

January 1, 2015

This January, the Philippine Coffee Board Inc.(PCBI) with the cooperation of Peace and Equity Foundation and Landbank of the Philippines will trek to Benguet to kick off its 2015 PICK RED campaign. Designed to simply show farmers the importance of waiting for coffee fruits to ripen for better coffee quality (and price), PICK RED is… Read More

PICK RED for good coffee is Step One

January 1, 2015

It may surprise you to know that even if Batangas and Cavite are coffee strongholds, many of the farmers are aging and are passing on their harvesting chores to hired hands usually from other non coffee-producing towns. We see this happening in our very own Amadeo, Cavite where red and GREEN coffee fruits can be… Read More