PHILIPPINE COFFEE SUMMIT ON ITS THIRD YEAR
After two successful summits dedicated to coffee, the Philippine Coffee Board Inc. (PCBI) will again host the 3rd Coffee Summit on October 18, 2010 in AIM Conference Center with the theme: NEW PLANTINGS: OUR ANSWER TO THE COFFEE CHALLENGE.
Stakeholders and partners from Benguet to Sulu will be attending the Coffee Summit to share ideas, and come up with a unified Vision and Mission for the vibrant coffee industry. The regional directors of Department of Agriculture, the DA-HVCC (High Value Commercial Crops), Bureau of Plant Industry, Bureau of Agricultural Statistics, DENR and the DAR. Coffee investors and private sector representatives like NISARD of Negros, Cavite Coffee Farmers Multi Purpose Cooperative and also from the academe like Benguet State University, Bataan Peninsula State University and Cavite State University will also share their programs dedicated to coffee.
“We want to plan the coffee industry’s future together with all stakeholders,” says Nicholas Matti, Chair of the Philippine Coffee Board, Inc. who has been actively encouraging Negros farmers and investors to plant coffee once again in the foothills of Mount Kanlaon. He will have representatives from NISARD headed by Boyet Uychiat who have established the Kanlaon Arabica Initiative or KAI.
“In the past summits, we engaged our government agencies and our academe especially in coffee research,” says Dr Alejandro C. Mojica, who heads the National Coffee Research Center based in Cavite. “This year, we are updating our information especially from the Bureau of Agricultural Statistics, so we can plan our solution for the many challenges our farmers face,” he continues.
“Anybody interested in the coffee business of farming should attend this summit,” says Matti. “You will get to meet people who have the same vision to have a profitable coffee farm while helping our country lessen dependence on coffee imports,” he exclaims.
For inquiries on how to reserve a slot for the summit, you can email philcoffeeboard@gmail.com or call 813-1028 or 0908-8821218. Follow PCB on facebook: philcoffeeboard or twitter.com/philcoffeeboard.
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