Government aims to raise coffee output to meet growing demand

The Department of Agriculture (DA) wants to increase coffee output to meet the demand of processors.

“We have to make sure that those farms that were given planting materials before are assisted in terms of increasing their productivity,” Agriculture Undersecretary Cheryl Marie Natividad-Caballero told reporters during a media briefing on Tuesday.She said the production of quality beans would require the right postharvest facilities that would enable farmers to observe the correct drying and fermentation process.

“We also continue to establish post-harvest facilities such as coffee drying, beans storage, and processing and packaging equipment and capacitate farmers to adopt Good Agricultural Practices and Good Manufacturing Practices to produce quality coffee.” “We would like to position ang ating kape sa pamamagitan ng paggamit ng Competitiveness Enhancement Measures Fund para mailatag yung suporta sa Liberica,” she said.

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