LATAP farmers Agriculture Cooperative

08/05/2026

Thank you so much for trusting Latap Coffee — 80 kilos delivered and paid. More than the sales, it means so much to our farmers to find business partners who recognize the value behind their calloused hands and hard work.

At Latap Coffee, we roast only when you order, ensuring that every cup delivers rich freshness and authentic flavor in every sip.

29/04/2026

Greetings everyone,

As we officially close the 2025–2026 coffee harvest season, our hearts are full of gratitude. This season, we harvested more than 5,000 kgs of coffee cherries and released more than ₱216,000 in harvesting compensation to over 40 farmers, from young teenagers helping their families to elders more than 80 years old who still continue to farm.

Daghan kaayong salamat sa EDC/PNOC and DENR for the planting materials and budgetary support. We are also thankful to DTI, DA, PATCO, AMAD, and PhilMech for believing in our growing coffee community.

Special thanks usab sa DOLE and DILP Grant, especially to Ma’am Rubie, for the processing equipment. Sauna, lisod pa gani maka-abot og ₱100,000 among halin and bayanihan ra gyud among pag-harvest. Karun, we are already buying almost a quarter of a million pesos worth of coffee from farmers, and coffee alone reached nearly half a million pesos in gross sales this year. Dako na kaayo ni for a small farming community like ours.

El Niño continues to challenge us, and until now, there is still uncertainty kung kanus-a ang uban nga assistance. But farmers have always learned how to survive difficult seasons. Kapoy usahay, pero padayon lang gihapon.

Since the reforestation efforts started in 1991, our community slowly moved away from the mindset of using poverty as a reason to denude the forest. Today, we are trying to build a community where farming creates dignity, livelihood, and opportunities even for those whose voices are often unheard.

To everyone who supported our farmers, bought our coffee, trusted our community, and believed in what we do — thank you kaayo. This harvest season was never just about coffee. It was about people, hard work, and hope.

24/04/2026

Thank you DTI & Maam Bing

19/04/2026

To Poblacion Makati ginagmay nga abag panginabuhi ining panahon sa krisis dekalidad nga quality sa kape.

15/03/2026

07/03/2026

21/02/2026

March 2022 was when we first started roasting coffee in a simple clay kalaha, carrying nothing but hope and the dream that one day this small livelihood would create a lasting impact on the lives of local farmers.

For more than two years, we kept roasting coffee by hand until August 2024, when we were blessed to receive a coffee roaster machine through the support of DOLE. Today, as we roast once again using the old kalaha, we are reminded of the quiet struggles we went through — the long hours beside a dusty and smoky dapog, the heat, the exhaustion, and the sacrifices that often went unseen and unappreciated.

Looking back, it felt like pieces of us were slowly being worn away while we held on tightly to the dream of building something meaningful for the community. This traditional way of roasting eventually affected the eyesight of our roaster and caused frequent numbness in the right arm, but despite everything, we continued because we believed in the farmers and in the vision we started with.

Note: Available gihapon among machine-roasted coffee. Pero para sa mga ganahan og traditional nga timpla ug kahumot, naa pod mi available nga traditionally roasted coffee.

08/02/2026

Halfway through the 2026 Coffee harvest Season optimistic to surpass last year's gross but then the neck and back breaking part of coffee processing is manual sorting. Every cup of latap coffee is a farmers livelihood, from the little income local farmers can only afford dried fish, sugar and salt since 2022 when we started roasting our coffee and cacao with DOLE-DILP grant and DTI and DA trainings that empowered Us now, farmers can afford a sack of rice, fish, bread, boots even shopee. Staple things that give farmers Dignity and hope we are grateful beyond words to all who patronise our products, and to all government agencies and personnel who helped us shaped our dreams guide us to navigate in an unfamiliar world of entrepreneurship.
/NGP
/ISF projects.

04/01/2026

10 kg nga tablea poydi na pod ni chocolate from tree to cup. Patiently grown Cacao Carefully harvested and specially crafted. Salamat kaayo sa nag order.

31/12/2025

Salamat kaayo sa tuig 2025 luyo sa mga hagit og pagsulay nakalabang kita sa tuig nga gigasahan sa grasya nga abot gikan sa gidamgo sauna nga 30 kapin na katuig ang nilabay.
Brgy. Malongcay-Diot og LGU Zambo.
DA( zambo, patco, amad, philmech og pca) Dole- Dilp. Denr, Edc og Dti.
Daghan kaayong Salamat sa mga programa nga nakatabang sa latap.
Salamat kaayo sa tanan nga nipalit sa atong mga produkto sa Latap.
(Photo credit by Deng of Valencia Dairy reporting sa DA Amas agri business seminar sa Golden Berry Hotel cebu)
Happy the whole year natung tanan.

27/12/2025

For today's ganap