21/09/2020
Look! These photos tell the stories of the farmers behind your cup of coffee. They are the members of the Casile Guinting Upland Marketing Cooperative (CGUMC), our featured MSME for today! 👇😍
The CGUMC is an alliance of coffee farmers and residents of Barangay Casile in Cabuyao, Laguna, who are working together in order to produce and sell local coffee. The community has been producing local coffee for 30 years, but it was in 2011 that the cooperative was created. In 2013, they first opened their coffee shop “Café Liberica” and renamed it to “Café de Cabuyao” in 2015.
The cooperative directly sourced its coffee beans from its farmer-members and even supported other farmers from nearby barangays. Casile Guinting Upland Marketing Coop is one of the assisted MSMEs of DTI Region 4-A Calabarzon and DTI Laguna.
For CGUMC, values, tradition, collaboration and sustainability are very important and they embrace these in their day to day operation. CGUMC is also proud of their hard-working, friendly community and their little coffee shop. In the future, they hope to expand their business and turn their shop into an attractive location for the Province of Laguna.
Casile-Guinting Upland Marketing Cooperative Cafe de Cabuyao Michelle de Sagun
