Coffee from Bulacan, anyone?
November 10, 2002 | 12:00am
DOÑA REMEDIOS TRINIDAD, Bulacan – "Ala eh, kapeng-kape eh!"
So goes a line from a commercial for a candy brand. And this will be proven true by coffee affcionados who will have a taste of the popular beverage grown from this mountainous town.
The town has been propagating two varieties of coffee that hopes at par with that grown in Batangas and some parts of Southern Tagalog.
Mayor Evelyn Paulino said that for nearly three years, farmers in the town have been growing and developing robusts and barako varieties of coffee for local manufacturing firms like Nestlé Philippines.
"Our farmers have ventured into organic coffee production and they have been earning from it since the project started," Paulino told The STAR.
The project is a partnership of the municipal government of DRT, the provincial government of Bulacan, Department of Environment and Natural Resources, and the Department of Agrarian Reform.
Mely San Gabriel, agricultural technologist of the municipal agriculture office said that presently, three barangays are planted with coffee. She said that a nursery is located in Barangay Camachin where at least 10,000 seedlings are being prepared for transplanting to farms in Barangays Kalawakan and Talbac.
San Gabriel said that Nestlé buys dried robusts beans for P80 per kilo, while their office buys freshly harvested beans for P400 per pail. After harvest, the beans are brought to a drying and warehouse facility in Barangay Kalawakan where it will be dried and kept until ready for delivery to Nestlé Philippines.
Paulino jokingly remarked that their Barako coffee was initially named "Barakong Bulakenyo" but was changed to Bulacan Organic Coffee some commented that the first one had a "double meaning."
Paulino said she is planning to put up a coffee growers cooperative to have a steady link to government agencies that would help them promote and propagate the industry.
So goes a line from a commercial for a candy brand. And this will be proven true by coffee affcionados who will have a taste of the popular beverage grown from this mountainous town.
The town has been propagating two varieties of coffee that hopes at par with that grown in Batangas and some parts of Southern Tagalog.
Mayor Evelyn Paulino said that for nearly three years, farmers in the town have been growing and developing robusts and barako varieties of coffee for local manufacturing firms like Nestlé Philippines.
"Our farmers have ventured into organic coffee production and they have been earning from it since the project started," Paulino told The STAR.
The project is a partnership of the municipal government of DRT, the provincial government of Bulacan, Department of Environment and Natural Resources, and the Department of Agrarian Reform.
Mely San Gabriel, agricultural technologist of the municipal agriculture office said that presently, three barangays are planted with coffee. She said that a nursery is located in Barangay Camachin where at least 10,000 seedlings are being prepared for transplanting to farms in Barangays Kalawakan and Talbac.
San Gabriel said that Nestlé buys dried robusts beans for P80 per kilo, while their office buys freshly harvested beans for P400 per pail. After harvest, the beans are brought to a drying and warehouse facility in Barangay Kalawakan where it will be dried and kept until ready for delivery to Nestlé Philippines.
Paulino jokingly remarked that their Barako coffee was initially named "Barakong Bulakenyo" but was changed to Bulacan Organic Coffee some commented that the first one had a "double meaning."
Paulino said she is planning to put up a coffee growers cooperative to have a steady link to government agencies that would help them promote and propagate the industry.
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