Cupping competition highlights emerging Ifugao coffee industry. The winners are (seated, from left) Corazon Wangag, first place winner; Leon Donato, 61, second place winner; and Rosita Dumelod, third place winner.
THE coffee industry in Asipulo, Ifugao got a major boost with the conduct of the first Cupping Competition during the town’s Kulpi’d Asipulo Festival on April 16. Asipulo has the biggest coffee planting area in Ifugao, a major Robusta coffee producer, with about 1,394 hectares or 55 percent of the province’s total coffee area.