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==[[Sultan Kudarat News]]==
==[[Sultan Kudarat News]]==
'''1st Region 12 Coffee Congress Set'''
'''Feeding drive'''
*Source: http://www.dti.gov.ph/dti/index.php?p=154&type=2&sec=5&aid=666
*Source: http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/340070/beef-sharing
*Wednesday, November 2, 2011
*November 4, 2011, 3:12pm
:by dti.gov.ph
:by mb.com.ph




ISULAN, Sultan Kudarat (PNA) – More than 20,000 children in 900 day-care centers in Sultan Kudarat benefited from the supplemental feeding program launched by the Region-12 office of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD-12).
DSWD-12 Assistant Director Gemma Rivera said the program has provided food to pre-school children for the past four months with a daily budget of P10 for each pupil. “We give them nutritious food so they will become healthy someday,” Rivera said. She urged parents to make sure that their children have taken breakfast before sending them to school.


Poised to claim the tag “Coffee Capital of the Philippines,” Sultan Kudarat is staging the 1st Region 12 Coffee Congress come 17-19 November 2011 at the Provincial Capitol in Isulan.


Sultan Kudarat is currently the country’s biggest producer of all varieties of  coffee recorded by the Bureau of Agricultural Statistics at 23% of the national total.


In terms of Coffee Arabica, Sultan Kudarat remain the number one producer contributing 52% to the national total, trailed way behind by Davao del Sur with 7%, Iloilo and Sulu with 5% each and South Cotabato with 4%.
Sultan Kudarat is also the number one producer of Coffee Robusta with about 18% of the the Philippines’ total attributed to the province. Compostela Valley follows closely with 15%, Cavite with 10%, Bukidnon with 7% and Kalinga with 5%.
For Coffee Excelsa, top five are Sulu (20%), Davao sur (12%), North Cotabato (8%), Davao city (7%) and Compostela Valley (5%).
While such is the situation, the yield is not as high as that of Cavite. Average yield in a hectare of coffee plantation in Sultan Kudarat is only 400 kg while that in Cavite was registered at an average of one ton per hectare.
This is one major reason for the conduct of the Congress, the organizers said, citing the need to rejuvenate or rehabilitate the existing coffee farms.
The congress shall tackle ways to improve agricultural and cultural practices, coffee quality profile, coffee for climate change, market requirements, coffee processing, and coffee shop business.
There shall also be Side Events like Agri, Trade & Techno Fair on coffee, Barista Exhibition, Market Matching with Nestle and Manila-based coffee shops, Investment Matching, Coffee Value Chain Tour and Coffee Cupping.
No less than Department of Agriculture Secretary is expected to grace the Opening Program, as the agency has now included coffee as a priority high value crop.
The local office of the Department of Trade & Industry has set as sales target of P2.0 M for the Market Matching; P5.0 M for new investments and improvement of productivity by 80% in the coming three (3) years.
The country is both an exporter and importer of coffee. In 2009, the Philippines exported coffee to Canada, Japan, South Korea and the USA. However it is also importing more coffee along with EU, USA, Japan, Canada and Switzerland.
Currently the country supplies only 30,000 metric tons or less than half of the 65,000 metric tons domestic demand.
The domestic demand for coffee is currently pegged at 65,000 MT while country only supplies 30,000 MT posting a deficit of 35,000 MT. The shortfall approximately amounting to Php0.3.6 Billion will be imported from other coffee producing countries.
A Roadmap to address the concerns of the coffee stakeholders have also been drafted by the DA, DTI, DOST, TESDA, LGUs and the coffee players themselves to ensure that we are on the right track.
Provincial and Municipal Coffee Industry Development Councils have also been organized in the coffee growing municipalities to monitor the development of the industry.
Inquiries or reservation to the 1st Region 12 Coffee Congress can be directed to the Secretariat: DTI – Sultan Kudarat at telephone number (064) 200-3166.


==Photo Gallery of Sultan Kudarat, Philippines==
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