Davao City to host coffee expo, quality tilt

Davao City to host coffee expo, quality tilt Mindanao News

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. By Digna Banzon

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.

In a press briefing on Wednesday, Quisol said PCQC contestants are allowed to submit two entries of their green beans. The competition will have four international judges with one each from Indonesia and Vietnam and two from the United States.

“Considering that 70 percent of the competitors come from Mindanao, we decided that the contest be held here in Davao City,” he said. 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 that 85 percent cupping mark,” he said.

PCQC said it aims to have the Philippine coffee recognized globally by performing evaluations aligned with internationally-accepted grading and profiling protocols as well as applying the standards of the Coffee Quality Institute (CQI).

The coffee expo, on the other hand, is a combined effort of the Department