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The provincial government of Negros Occidental is putting initiatives in place to increase domestic coffee production during the next three years.

According to provincial administrator Rayfrando Diaz II, the province only produces eight metric tons of coffee annually or approximately 10% of what the output of the land where coffee is grown should be.

Which is extremely low. A good harvest, according to legend, should be 90 metric tons. According to him, we are only producing 10% of what is anticipated.

About 8,000 hectares of coffee plantations in Negros Occidental are run by non-governmental organizations and people’s organizations that have special use permits in protected areas.

Diaz stated that the effort to increase coffee production has been allocated PHP16 million from the province’s 20 percent development plan, but underlined the need to re-strategize.

The Department of Environment and Natural Resources authorized certain coffee plantations to be situated inside the protected area as part of its greening initiative, but some of the plants are no longer productive due to aging and illness, according to the speaker.

“If we have to spend PHP16 million on rejuvenation, we might as well reconsider. Why not visit undeveloped marginal lands? Compared to those in the highlands, it would probably be simpler to maintain and visit,” Diaz added. “Let’s devise a plan. In order to achieve the 90 metric tons yield in the upcoming three years, let’s reevaluate our strategy.

According to him, the plans call for revitalizing some coffee plantation regions, growing new crops with an emphasis on the robusta variety, which is intended to become the distinctive feature of Negros coffee, and creating shared facilities at the Negros Occidental Food Terminal Market in this city.

“Everyone else will merely contribute the raw components and then come up with one product that will be known across the nation and the world that anytime it is Negros Café or Abanse Negrense Café, it’s truly a good robusta,” he claimed.

As part of the financing the province will get from the Department of Agriculture’s Philippine Rural Development Project for four farmers’ associations, Diaz said the inventory of areas planted for coffee was also being undertaken.

A primary processing facility for the harvest of coffee will be made available to the beneficiaries in the cities of Cadiz, La Carlota, and Sipalay as well as the municipality of La Castellana.

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