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Article: Young farmer to rehabilitate family's neglected coffee farm.(Agriculture)
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- Manila Bulletin
- Article date:
- June 29, 2007
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Armed with competent training on coffee farming through the help of leading coffee brand Nescafe, 26-year-old Donald Nueva Ecija from Sultan Kudarat hopes to revive the family's not-so-productive coffee farm.
An industrial engineering graduate, Nueva Ecija plans to apply what he learned from his free three-day coffee specialist course at the Nestle Experimental and Development Farm (NEDF) in their farm in Liba, Sultan Kudarat.
The young coffee farmer is confident and optimistic that through proper coffee planting, cultivation, harvesting and processing techniques that he learned from NEDF, he would be able to increase their annual coffee production.
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