Coffee Alamid - The Philippine Civet Coffee

This manual was designed to serve as a guide for Arabica coffee cultivation in the Cordillera highlands of the Philippines. It comprises of both theoretical and practical aspects of coffee production, harvest and post-harvest management of Arabica coffee. Keeping in mind the actual needs of Coffee growers in the Cordillera, this production guide presented here has been brought out to transfer improved coffee cultivation techniques to them. It is also intended to help them improve their current coffee management practices, thereby producing better quality beans to be competitive in the domestic market.

This publication was made possible through Bote Central- Serenity Coffee Corporation, in cooperation with the German Development Service in Manila. I particularly would like to thank Vie and Basil Reyes at Bote Central for their generous support, suggestions, ideas and interest in preparing this manual. In addition, I wish to express my sincerest gratitude to Lupe Coromina who invited me to stay on her farm estate in Tuplay for taking photos of Arabica varieties organically grown under a canopy of forest tree species.

And last but not least, I want to thank the coffee growers for sharing information and insights on all aspects of coffee cultivation in Tublay, Benguet Province.

To view the manual, please click Production Guide for Arabica Coffee.

To download the file directly, please click Production Guide for Arabica Coffee. 

To view a SMILE Inflight Magazine's article on coffee alamid, please click Feline Great: The True Poop Scoop on Civet Coffee.