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Agusan del Sur bets big on upland coffee in logged highlands
SAN FRANCISCO, Agusan del Sur — Where chainsaws and slash-and-burn farming once tore through ancestral frontiers, provincial leaders are now betting that specialty coffee can brew an economic turnaround for isolated mountain villages. On Wednesday, local officials led by Agusan del Sur 2nd District Rep. Adolph Edward P

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