Starting a Coffee Plantation

We have just finished planting around 2,000 Arabica coffee trees which we purchased last June. Since we all do things by ourselves privately then we take also the responsibility of seeking advice from friends having experience in coffee farming.

Seedlings coming from La Trinidad
Seedlings coming from La Trinidad

We are new in this field so we are eager to send our farm assistants to attend seminars whenever opportunities open for it like this coffee forum held in Sagada recently.

Our newly planted arabica coffee trees.(Status of plants as Jof uly 2015 - these were planted last february 2015)
Our newly planted arabica coffee trees. (Status of plants as of July 2015 – these were planted last February 2015)

As we do not have much knowledge about coffee growing we appreciate that we were invited to visit the demo farm. It will be our lady farm assistants who we will be in charge of this coffee project.

Our arabica coffee trees planted under the shade of taller trees
Our Arabica coffee trees planted under the shade of taller trees

They returned to the farm very much inspired by what they have seen in Sagada so now – – – it will be work and more work till we reach the finish line.

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Executive Director of Layog Country Farm Center for Sustainable Futures

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    1. The coffee seedlings were purchased from The Coffee organization Of la Trinidad which is headed by Mr. Arthur Shontogan. Some seedlings too were from the private nursery of Efleda Blanco from Irisan

    2. The coffee seedlings were purchase from the Coffee Organization of La Trinidad, Benguet which is headed by Arthur Shontogan. Some of the seedlings were also from the private nursery of Efleda Blanco.

    1. Our first attempt to plant arabica coffee was a failure due to the typhoon damaging the newly planted arabica trees last 2016, We have just newly planted 1000 new arabica coffee trees last September 2018.

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