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Article: Remote village grows one of the best coffee beans in Neg. Or.
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- Philippines News Agency
- Article date:
- February 24, 2009
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DUMAGUETE CITY, Feb. 24 (PNA) -- A remote and almost inaccessible upland village in Pamplona town is one of the best producers of coffee beans and peanuts in Negros Oriental. Calicanan, with a little over 2,000 population, enjoys fertile soil that is perfect for planting coffee beans. The said village is the farthest in that town, which is about 30 kilometers from the national highway, and seated deep in the heart of the mountains. It used to be a critical area during the height of the insurgency problem in the province in the late 1980s and early 1990s, although it is now enjoying relative peace with a military detachment in the village. Barangay Chairman Andres Sunlit ...