Officially the Municipality of Mankayan, is a 1st class municipality in the province. According to the 2015 census, it has a population of 35,953 people.

Mankayan is also known as a mining town, it is the location of several mines including the Lepanto Consolidated Mining Company.
There is some old coffee plantation in the no-mining communities of Mankayan and it helps the people’s livelihood. Also, some farmers nearby mining communities are now interested in using their land for coffee cultivation. Cordillera Green Network (CGN) conducted some seminars on coffee quality from seedling production to harvest and post-harvest refining in 2017. Also, CGN established the nursery for coffee seedlings in Mankayan in 2019 to support expanding their production as an alternative livelihood for farmers.

The Municipality of Kapangan, is a 4th class municipality in the province of Benguet. Its Cordillera Green Network (CGN) has planted 8513 arabica coffee seedlings in 2010, 31,470 Arabica coffee seedlings in 2012-2014, and 7,200 seedlings in 2016. Support network also conducted quality improvement seminars in 2016,2017 and 2019; also provided post-harvest materials

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YAGAM COFFEE is the finest arabica coffee in the Cordillera region, the Northern part of Luzon in the Philippines.

The Cordillera region is surrounded by steep mountains wherein the indigenous people residing there have no means of living.

The Cordillera Green Network (CGN), an environmental NGO based in Baguio City, works to preserve the environment and improve the quality of life for indigenous people in the Cordillera region, they have been distributing arabica coffee seedlings as well as providing training on how to grow coffee under the agroforestry system since 2006. Now, many coffee growers have begun harvesting and producing good quality coffee. For sustainable coffee farming, CGN has a partnership with Kapi Tako Social Enterprise to marketize their coffees under the concept of Fairtrade in 2010.