National Anti-Poverty Commission Secretary Lope Santos III said this after he attended the recent convergence of various government agencies in Tuburan.
The booming coffee industry in Tuburan is the brainchild of Mayor Aljun Diamante who pushed his constituents to engage in coffee farming as their main source of livelihood. The town now has about 2,000 coffee farmers. “We saw that the initial program may create more programs. The value chain of the coffee industry will develop into a tourism industry, may upgrade to another level, and may lead to an upland ecosystem in the integrated development program not just coffee but also other crops,” said Santos.
“We recommended our coffee planters and in 2011, we got 500 hectares from DENR. But we did not let our farmers plant ordinary trees to eradicate ‘kaingin’ . But we didn’t stop kaingin without giving our farmers an alternative and that alternative is coffee farming,” said Diamante. “If every town will have one hectare of coffee plantation, Cebu will have 44,000 hectares of coffee farms. In one hectare, at least 1,500 trees can be planted. Each tree would produce 10 kilos of cherries so we will have 666 million kilos a year,” said Diamante.
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