On the invitation of the Bohol Coffee and Cacao Farmers Marketing Group, the Philippine Coffee Board Inc (PCBI) brought their Chair Nicholas Matti to train farmers in Coffee Nursery Maintenance and also in Pick Red Harvest of their Premium Robusta Coffees. With the support of Landbank of the Philippines (LBP), the PCBI has been conducting… Read More
Barista champion Vanessa Caceres reveals how to make latte art MATERIALS: espresso machine fresh milk (cold) coffee (medium to dark roast) barista pitcher (with a narrow spout) barista latte art pen MATERIALS: Steam the milk at 150-160°F using an espresso machine to make a microfoam (also known as wet foam because of its… Read More
New listing so farmers earn double just by protecting the variety The coffee variety, ARABICA, is now officially in the Slow Food’s Ark of Taste as the number of trees in Benguet continue to dwindle. Many reasons contribute to its declining population, such as climate change, coupled with the diminishing interest of the younger generation to… Read More
UNDER THE SPONSORSHIP OF UPS AND USAID-ACTI, FIVE COUNTRIES IN THE ASEAN SENT THEIR BEST WOMEN COFFEE ENTREPRENEURS—farmers, processors and retailers—to visit various coffee destinations in Cavite and in Makati City. The women visited the National Coffee Research Center in Indang, Cavite to see new technologies and the vast collection of coffee varieties the… Read More
PCBI’s Dr. Alejandro Mojica reveals how it’s done—the right way. 1. ACQUISITION OF QUALITY PLANTING MATERIALS For Arabica – elevation should be 1000 m or more meters above sea levelFor Robusta, Liberica and Excelsa – < 800 meters above sea level 2. LAND PREPARATION 3. FIELD LAYOUTING For Arabica – 2m x… Read More
PRINCESS KUMALAH SUG-ELARDO has been the poster lady of coffee in ARMM since she organized her cooperative, the People’s Alliance For Progress Multi Purpose Cooperative (PAP-MPC) in 2009. It started with a small capital of P170,000. The coop now counts about P15 Million in assets. That’s almost 1,000% in growth! Since 2012, when the… Read More
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
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
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