Mindanao News
Davao City to host coffee expo, quality tilt
By Digna Banzon
DAVAO CITY – This city will host for the first time the Philippine Coffee Expo 2020 and the Philippine Coffee Quality Competition (PCQC) on April 2-3. Emmanuel Quisol, business development service coordinator of the PhilCAFE Project, said the expo will be joined by coffee stakeholders all over the Philippines while a hundreds will participate in the competition.
Quisol said they are expecting better scores this time as more coffee farmers have begun introducing new techniques in production as well as adopting good agricultural practices.
“We hope that they get higher than In a press briefing on Wednesday, that 85 percent cupping mark,” he said. Quisol said PCQC contestants are allowed to submit two entries of their PCQC said it aims to have the green beans. The competition will have Philippine coffee recognized globally four international judges with one each by performing evaluations aligned with from Indonesia and Vietnam and two internationally-accepted grading and from the United States. profiling protocols as well as applying the standards of the Coffee Quality Institute “Considering that 70 percent of the (CQI). competitors come from Mindanao, we decided that the contest be held here in The coffee expo, on the other hand, Davao City,” he said. is a combined effort of the Department
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