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An employee of the provincial government of Bukidnon shows packages of award-winning coffee grown in the province during the 35th Mindanao Business Conference in Cagayan de Oro City on Wednesday (12 August 2026). Finca de Garces in Pangantucan municipality has been a consistent winner in the Philippine Coffee Quality Competition. Bukidnon province has been pushing to become the country’s ‘Arabica Coffee Capital.’ MindaNews photo by FROILAN GALLARDO CAGAYAN DE ORO (MindaNews / 14 August 2026) – Traders attending the 35th Mindanao Business Conference at the Limketkai Mall here are pushing for mobile banking innovations to boost the island’s P2-trillion agricultural economy. Maricel Casiño-Rivera, a director of the Cagayan de Oro Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Oro Chamber), said such a move could help develop Mindanao’s agricultural economy, particularly its informal sector, which generates between ₱150 billion and ₱200 billion annually. “The informal sector is largely und...