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Nestle Philippines is planting the seeds for a more productive local coffee industry, rooted in its belief that better-trained farmers and stronger post-harvest systems could eventually help close the country’s chronic bean shortage.
That Filipino farmers are unable to grow enough beans to satiate the country’s thirst for coffee remains a major challenge for Nestle, the country’s largest coffee manufacturer and one of the world’s biggest buyers of green coffee beans.
As it stands, only about a fifth of the company’s coffee supply — used for its flagship Nescafé products — is sourced locally, while the rest still comes from major producers such as Indonesia and Vietnam.
Nestle now wants to change that by strengthening its partnership with the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (Tesda) to upskill smallholder farmers and raise local coffee production.
