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DAVAO CITY: Coffee industry players in Sultan Kudarat province are
very proud of their coffee products saying “it is the best coffee
in the country,” reported the Philippine News Agency.
Department of Trade and Industry Sultan Kudarat
provincial caretaker Carlito Nuñez said it was the Department of
Agriculture that declared the province as having the best Arabica
coffee beans in the country.
He said the local government in coordination
with the private sector is currently working on making its coffee,
branded as “Sultan Kudarat Coffee,” the OTOP (one town one
product) of the province.
Nuñez said over 30 percent of the total coffee
production in the country comes from Sultan Kudarat.
The province is located in SOCSKSARGEN region in
Mindanao. The region consists of the provinces of Cotabato, Sultan
Kudarat, South Cotabato, and Sarangani and General Santos City, with
Cotabato City as the regional center.
Sultan Kudarat has over 2,000 hectares planted
to coffee particularly in the municipality of Senator Ninoy Aquino,
Nuñez said.
Although it has yet to capture the world market,
ongoing research aims to identify which area in the world market
“Sultan Kudarat Coffee” would be best suited to, Nuñez said,
adding that the municipal government crafted a 10-year development
plan for coffee in Sultan Kudarat two years ago.
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