Nescafé opens Philippines coffee centre of excellence to bolster production
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Nescafé has inaugurated a new coffee centre of excellence in the Philippines to
improve the quality and quantity of the coffee crop in a country where demand
for beans far outstrips supply.
The facility, in Batangas City in the central Philippines, was set up as a one-
stop shop for coffee-growers in the region to give farmers access to the best of
Nestlé's coffee farming technology and training.
At present, the demand for coffee beans in the Philippines is not being met by
locally-grown supply. In 2012, for example, local demand for coffee beans
totalled more than 70,000 tonnes, while local production reached only 30,000.
Nestlé Philippines is the country's biggest buyer of Robusta coffee beans and
the centre will also secure its long-term supply of the crop.
"This is a significant milestone which underlines our continuing support of the
Philippine coffee industry and our commitment to creating shared value for its
various stakeholders, especially small-scale coffee farmers," said Edith de
Leon, Nestlé Philippines Senior Vice President and Head of Corporate Affairs.
The Nestlé Lipa Integrated Coffee Center, which opened in mid-July, is the
second centre of its kind in the country.
It aims to help coffee farmers on the northern Luzon Island boost yields and
comes as the Nescafé brand celebrates its 75(th) anniversary.
Both the new Lipa coffee centre and the existing Nestlé Experimental and
Demonstration Farm, in Davao del Norte, in the southern Philippines, are an
integral part of the Nescafé Plan.
The Plan, launched in 2010, is a global CHF 350 million initiative supporting
sustainable coffee farming, production and consumption.
"Through the Nescafé Plan, we aim to reverse the decline in local coffee
production and help the country achieve coffee self-sufficiency," Ms de Leon
said. "This opening represents the next big step in achieving this goal."
The facility, some five-hectares in size, was created at a cost of CHF 500,000
(25 million Philippine pesos). It features a Robusta production nursery with a
capacity to produce some 500,000 coffee seedlings, which will be distributed to
growers at cost price.
The goal is that the centre will, over time, become a major source of coffee
seedlings throughout the country with the capacity for as many as one million
seedlings. It is estimated that some 3,500 farmers will receive coffee seedlings
direct from the centre by 2020.
The facility also houses a buying station where farmers can sell their produce
directly to Nestlé at a price in line with those offered on the global market,
as well as a composting facility for organic fertiliser.
An estimated 3,300 farmers are expected to sell their green coffee beans
annually at the centre's buying station.
Related information:
Nestlé Philippines
http://www.nestle.com.ph/
Nescafé
http://www.nescafe.com/
Nescafé Plan
http://www.nescafe.co.uk/sustainability
Nestlé Creating Shared Value Summary Report 2012 (pdf, 3.2Mb)
http://www.nestle.com/asset-
library/documents/library/documents/corporate_social_responsibility/nestle-csv-
summary-report-2012-en.pdf
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