Industry

The business side of Philippine coffee — farming, exports, startups, and the future.

Meet the Roasters: Philippine Coffee Entrepreneurs

From barista champion Michael Harris Conlin to cooperative chairs in Cavite, meet the Filipino entrepreneurs building a real specialty coffee business.

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The Business of Coffee Farming: Margins, Challenges, Reality

A clear-eyed look at farmgate prices, yields, and aging trees in Philippine coffee farming, and why most smallholder farmers here still barely break even.

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Philippine Coffee Exports: Where Does It All Go?

The Philippines barely exports coffee at all anymore — here's the surprising truth about where its small remaining shipments of beans actually end up today.

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Starting a Coffee Business in Manila: What Nobody Tells You

Thinking of opening a coffee shop in Manila? Here's the unglamorous reality behind sourcing, rent, roasting decisions, and the competition you'll actually face.

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Cooperatives and Coffee: The Filipino Model

How Philippine coffee cooperatives like BCCF and Kalinga Coffee Growers turn scattered smallholder farms into a real, competitive market force nationwide.

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Fair Trade and Philippine Coffee: What Labels Actually Mean

Fair Trade, organic, PGS, single-origin — Philippine coffee labels can mean very different things depending on who's printing them. Here's what to look for.

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Tech in the Field: How Philippine Coffee Farming Is Modernizing

From IoT soil sensors to DNA testing on heirloom trees, here's how tech is quietly transforming Philippine coffee farming, one small mountain plot at a time.

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The Future of Philippine Coffee: Predictions for the Next Decade

Will the Philippines ever close its coffee deficit? A grounded look at where Bukidnon, Sultan Kudarat, and the wider industry are realistically headed by 2035.

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