Civet Cat Coffee Philippines

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Civet cat coffee philippines. Today coffee farmers now search the forest floor for droppings of the civet cat also called alamid or musang. EXOTIC BEANS In New York one coffee shop sells the civet beans at a staggering 340 a pound 748 a kilogram. Pure Jungle Cat Coffee from the native islands of Sumatra Java Bali and Sulawesi in the Indonesian Archipelago and from some farms in the islands of the Philippines.

The Philippine civet cat uses its nose to choose the ripest and sweetest coffee cherries and relentlessly eats them during coffee season. But it comes from an unusual source - the droppings of a nocturnal cat-like. So efforts are being made to keep the civets in the wild and the forest where they roam protected.

Tanay Hills Coffee Beanery brings you the rare and exotic Philippine Civet Coffee. Faeces collectors make the trek to the cats natural habitat in the primary forest and gather the droppings piece by piece bunch by bunch. In Indonesia it is threatened by poaching and illegal.

Ten years after Alamid Coffee entered the Philippine market civet cats are now considered valuable animals capable of yielding a sizeable profit for entrepreneurs in the civet coffee industry. We are the farm and collect civet beans from ONE AREA the Langogan Valley. Near Mount Magallaya in the heart of the Cordilleras are forests where Kalinga warriors once hunted for wild boar and deer.

The animal digests only the pulp of the beans which passes through the civets digestive tract and naturally ferments the beans in its digestive system where enzymes break down some of the proteins producing beans of low. Langogan is one of the remaining thickly forested areas of Palawan where civets Binturong the Palawan Bear Cat ang Musang the wild cats are still wild and free to enjoy their rightful share of the best coffee beans. In light of this threat the DENR emphasized that the civet cat plays an important role in the ecosystem by propagating the seeds it spews after eating.

The Asian palm civet also called common palm civet toddy cat and musang is a viverrid native to South and Southeast Asia. These coffee beans are more commonly known as Kape Alamid in the Philippines. Exporter of exotic wild Civet Coffee from mountain province in Northern Philippines.