A field practice report at coffee for Peace Matina, Davao City, Philippines with focus on post-production of arabic coffee (Coffea arabica L.) from red cherries to green beans

Date

12-2015

Degree

Bachelor of Science in Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering

Major Course

Major in Agricultural and Bio-Process Engineering

College

College of Engineering and Agro-Industrial Technology (CEAT)

Adviser/Committee Chair

Ma. Christine Concepcion D. Ignacio

Abstract

The annual demand for coffee in the Philippines is around 100,000 metric tons, but the supply is only 30,000 metric tons. This decline in coffee production in the country started in 2009 and continued until now. The continuous rainfall, frequent typhoon, strong winds, infestation of borers and coffee rust disease are some of the reasons of the decline. With this, further losses due to processing operation of Coffee for Peace, a peace promoting coffee processing company in Davao City. The processing center was performed, manpower requirements, health and safety measures, employee training, machine efficiency, maintenance and product, waste management practices and environmental considerations. The specific processes that are inspected are as follows harvestin, delivery, quality assessment, pulping, fermentation, washing, drying, hulling and sorting. The pulper/huller machine used in the company was compared to the commercially available machines and some recommendations were give to improve its performance. Moreover, operation data from December 2014 up to March 2015 were also assessed. The actual yield of the processing operation was compared to theoretical yield based on the ratio 6:1 for cherry to green bean, and 5:1 for cherry to parchment. Also, it was compared to the green bean equivalent. For both of the standards theoretical ratio of green coffee bean to red cherries and dry parchment, and Green bean Equivalent (GBE), the yield from the CFP company in higher than the theoretical yield. With this, improvement of the pulping, hulling and drying operations is necessary. Also, more strict quality assessment in accepting coffee cherries should be employed in order to maintain the good quality of their product. Moreover, the processing center location and layout was recommended in order to ease the flow of the process. WIth the proposed solutions to the problems encountered during the post-production, losses are expected to be minimized, energy input will be well-utilized, and other resources will be optimized.

Language

English

Location

UPLB College of Engineering and Agro-Industrial Technology (CEAT)

Call Number

LG 993 2016 A2 /S25

Document Type

Thesis

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