With the endorsement of the National Agriculture and Fisheries Council (NAF Council) of the Department of Agriculture’s (DA) Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 Plan and Budget Proposal (PBP) on April 25, 2023, private sector members of the Council highlighted the importance of new innovations and approaches to be integrated into the proposal to enhance the competitiveness continue reading…
The National Banner Program Committee on High Value Crops- Coffee and Cacao discussed on February 15, 2022 the damage in terms of number of farmers, area affected, and production loss to the coffee and cacao production areas affected by Typhoon Odette. Department of Agriculture (DA) Field Operations Services OIC Director Bernadette San Juan pointed out continue reading…
More than a hundred local coffee growers from different regions gathered in a summit on July 3 to 5, 2018 in General Santos City to understand the current state of the industry and come up with appropriate policy recommendations that would improve the industry across the value chain. Funded by the Philippine Council for Agriculture continue reading…
To ensure continuous development of sector-based consultations, Regional Agricultural and Fishery Council (RAFC) Sectoral Committee representatives joined the National Sectoral and Strategic Concerns Committee-Commercial Crops Committee (NSC-SCCs- ComCrops) in a meeting on May 3, 2017. In the discussion presided by the Coffee and Cacao Industry Development Sub-Committee, the NSC-SCCs were joined by Victor Sanque of continue reading…
The National Coffee Summit has paved the way to discuss the most pressing concerns of coffee farmers, traders and other stakeholders. The two-day event, organized by the Philippine Council for Agriculture and Fisheries (PCAF) together with its Coffee Industry Development Sub-Committee, gathered about 200 participants on April 14 to 15, 2016 at the Department of continue reading…
