LEARNING FROM SEED TO CUP

May 24, 2018

When Benguet State University (BSU) started an Arabica coffee extension program to further educate and train farmers and other stakeholders in the Cordilleras, it did not foresee that it would eventually evolve into a formal seed-to-cup quality coffee education program. Professor Valentino Macanes, BSU’s Director of Institute of Highland Farming Systems and Agroforestry (IHFSA), was… 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