The Mountain Province State Polytechnic College is expected to host as International Multi-Location Variety Trial (IMLVT), a research on coffee varieties starting March, 2020.
Dr. Annie Grail F. Ekid, VPRDE had a meeting with Director Alver Claudio of Coffee Center, Director Kraig Kraft of World Coffee Research (WCR) Global Operations, and Director Gilda Palima of the Agricultural Cooperative Development International and Volunteers in Oversees Cooperative Assistance (ACDI/VOCA). During the meeting, the collaboration and the commencement of research in relation to the project was confirmed.
The trial will give an opportunity for MPSPC to learn from the technology and knowledge that will be shared by WCR and ACDI/VOCA. As the host institution, MPSPC will identify farmer cooperators who will be taking part in the trial. MPSPC will also build a thermal chamber to be used particularly in the propagation of the coffee seedlings that will be shipped from France.
Farmers in several locations in Mountain Province will be planting coffee seedlings in a portion of their lands. ACDI/VOCA, on the other hand, will be providing a staff who will be assisting in the operations of the research while WRC will provide the necessary fund. All formal guidelines and set of agreements will be available for signing by all parties in January 2020.
