Coffee

SSF for Coffee

Cavite State University (CvSU) – Indang, Cavite, is located strategically in the upland portion of the province. Based on the university, is the National Coffee Research Development and Extension Center. The Research Center (RC) exerted serious efforts towards streamlining the Research, Development and Extension Program by establishing a strong and effective research program by establishing a strong and effective research program aimed to generate innovative and viable technologies useful to farmers and other clienteles. RC also helps the farmers in their quest to unite and form the Cavite Coffee Growers Multi-Purpose Cooperative (CCGMPC). The CCGMPC is a group composed majority of coffee represented by nine municipalities in the upland area of Cavite province namely: Amadeo, Alfonso, Maragondon, Gen. Aguinaldo, Magallanes, Mendez, Tagaytay City, Silang and Naic. The more than sixty farmer-members converged for a common goal to strengthen their capacity in terms of marketing and production. They pooled their effort and resources to acquire bargaining power for their produced coffee which they sold directly in bulk and partly convert into ground coffee which they brand as “Café Montana”. Aside from the group, the university envisioned to assist the coffee traders, millers and farmers who intend to engage in coffee ground business from the upland places of Cavite.

SSF for Coffee (Roasting Facility)

The Café Amadeo Development through the support of various line agencies, LGUs and private sectors, the cooperative has become the benchmark of development or once dying coffee industry and a hallmark of success. It has startup capital or fifteen thousand pesos and is composed of fifteen members with one employee in 2002. The cooperative has now a direct employment of 11 workers and 181 members. Last year alone the said coop has garnered a total sales of P 10,635,231. As of March of 2014, it has a gross sales of P 3,476,439.51 and a net income from operation of P 871,802.61 From micro, now the cooperative has graduated to small scale industry with total assets of P 7,748,608.52.

The Café Amadeo Development Cooperative comprised of more than one hundred members have long time envisioned to have a roasting facility which would address their need for the machine to cater their more than one thousand kl demand per month of the roasting services. It was through DTI-SSF program that the realized this good opportunity to use the facility in usufruct agreement thereby allowing the use or the machine for tree within six years. The roasting machine was already delivered to the cooperative thus, a launching ceremony was scheduled.