District by District Village Coffee Rehabilitation Brief
The District by District Village Coffee Rehabilitation Program is an impact project and was basically implemented to counter the decline in the production of coffee.
The program has been specifically designed targeting smallholder coffee growers at the village level as 85 % percent of the total production is from this sector of the coffee industry. Only selected districts were covered during this exercise, however other villages in neighboring districts which were located close to the border were also covered.
Focus on the three districts was necessary basically to assess its impact on these districts before implementation in other proposed districts covered in the implementation plan for the ensuing years.
Full coffee rehabilitation work effectively commenced in the month of October, 2009 after the initial start up in September of the same year. The core of the program is to rehabilitate senile coffee trees with principle focus on regenerating suckers that can continue to give optimum yield.
The impetus of the rehabilitation task has expanded from the target smallholder farmers to even blocks and plantations.
The core of the program involved coffee rehabilitation using basic rehabilitation activities and establishing of central coffee nurseries which objectively intends to complement total outcome of increased production of coffee.
Field implementation was re-organized following community reviews to disaggregate farmers into cluster groups that enable effective participation and co-ordination by smaller groups. Clusters grouping in Base Camps significantly boosted the daily target of 900 trees to rehabilitate to more than 2000 trees daily. Those attainments indicate the community willingness and demonstration of interest to participate meaningfully.
The outcome was a total of 188 cluster groups (WHP 111, Simbu 60 and 17 for EHP) operating concurrently in each Base Camp achieving a total of 5,306,751 trees rehabilitated in 1,989.2ha throughout the three districts. This has enabled the six months targets to be achieved in less than three months.
Concurrently, fifty central nurseries were established and an additional 300,000 poly bags and 240,000 seeds distributed to accommodate increasing demand for village nurseries resulting from the rehabilitation program.
The following were undertaken during the exercise:
- Provincial Staff Support
- Socio-Economics Survey
- Project Monitoring and Evaluation
- Blocks and Plantation Rehabilitation
- Support to Coffee Curriculum with establishment of Nurseries in schools piloting the Coffee Curriculum
- Coffee Rehabilitation
- Coffee Nursery Establishments
Funding was received from the PNG Government through the NADP and the following ensues:
- Total of K3,794,009.00 received
- Expenditures at project completion = K3,794,009.00
- Total Expected Income from Nursery and Rehabilitation: K14,686320.00
- Expected Output Projections: K14,686,320.00 – K3,794,009.00 = K10,892,311.00
K10,892,311.00 surplus cash flow projections ensuing from this program.
Updated:
July 15, 2011
