MANILA - The military has used a
lot of a camp in Bukidnon to plant Robusta coffee seedlings and use the fund
from the harvest to the Armed Forces of the Philippines' (AFP) modernization
program. Though the whole fund will not cover the entire program, but the additional funding would be a great help.
Maj. Gen. Ricardo Visaya, Army
4th Infantry Division commander said there are more or less 5,200 Robusta
coffee seedlings have been planted in a 200-hectare plot inside the
16,000-hectare Camp Kibaritan during the weekend. They intended to plant at least
1,000 seedling per hectares, while the 5,200 seedlings were planted only to
cover the five hectares of the coffee plantation.
The future Coffee Plantation
Pilot Project will be managed by former members of the New People’s Army (NPA)
who have returned to the government fold who are experts in this field. The
expected harvest of the coffee would be three years from now.
Visaya said, the militaries have
also assigned a portion of it for our brothers who have reverted to mainstream
society just to make sure that their life with their families will be
well-sustained. The future coffee plantation would be a great help for the newly returned
NPA to sustain their family necessities.
“They (rebel returnees) will have no problem in selling the product because Nestle
Philippines assured to buy the coffee for them. He said the project was an outcome
of a series of planning, study and consultation.He also described it as a “very
sustainable project that will work in many ways to generate funds and help the
Philippine economy an modernize the soldier in the best way.
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