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                    [Title] => Let’s take a break for coffee
                    [Summary] => 

Remember when, in this side of the world, or at least in the ASEAN region, our coffee industry was more robust, thriving healthily such that we were exporting to our neighbors?

[DatePublished] => 2014-03-01 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133766 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805279 [AuthorName] => Rey Gamboa [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 893325 [Title] => Good business in 2013! [Summary] =>

As is our wont at the start of the year, we gathered capsule assessments from top business leaders for the past year and how they see 2013 unfolding for the industries/sectors they represent.

[DatePublished] => 2013-01-05 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133753 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805279 [AuthorName] => Rey Gamboa [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 867561 [Title] => Automobiles galore at the MOA [Summary] =>

Last weekend, we held a highly-successful Auto Focus Motor Show & Auto Expo at the concert grounds of the SM Mall of Asia.

[DatePublished] => 2012-11-17 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133766 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805279 [AuthorName] => Rey Gamboa [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 756458 [Title] => Coco water and coffee - 2 sunshine industries [Summary] =>

As I write this, I’m enjoying an early rest to prepare for the Bangkok Motor Show tomorrow, thanks to my host Motor Image Pilipinas, Inc. distributors of Subaru vehicles in the country through the courtesy of Mr. Nicky Mariano, top honcho. More updates on my other column when I get back.

[DatePublished] => 2011-12-10 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133753 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805279 [AuthorName] => Rey Gamboa [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 737408 [Title] => DA commits to invest more in coffee sector [Summary] =>

With domestic demand for coffee growing at the rate of three to five percent annually, the country has to continue importing more bean since local production is hard pressed in meeting it.

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Charing Bucawit proudly shows off her organic coffee harvest from Beckel, Benguet’s 100-year-old trees. Like most farmers in the Cordillera, Charing is aging but hopes to see the coffee industry in Benguet thrive and even get better.

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Coffee aficionados will rejoice as the much-awaited annual coffee festival of the Philippine Coffee Board happens until Oct. 26 at the Greenbelt malls in Makati.

[DatePublished] => 2009-10-18 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1116774 [AuthorName] => Alexa Villano [SectionName] => The Good News [SectionUrl] => the-good-news [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 504526 [Title] => National coffee tree planting roadshow culminates in Mendez, Cavite [Summary] =>

The Philippine Coffee Board and the Department of Agriculture culminated its National Coffee Tree Planting Roadshow in Mendez, Cavite last Sept 3. The Roadshow started in Bukidnon, Iloilo and Benguet in July.

[DatePublished] => 2009-09-13 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => The Good News [SectionUrl] => the-good-news [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 460867 [Title] => Coffee self-sufficiency targetted by 2015 [Summary] =>

The Philippine coffee industry is targetted to attain self sufficiency in the aromatic bean by 2015, enabling the country to save P3.5 billion from annual imports of the bean, following the agreement signed in October 2008 between the Department of Agriculture and the stakeholders in the sector.

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