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CIC Launches Strategic Plan (30/07/08)

The launching of the PNG Coffee Industry Strategic Plan 2008-2018 on July 18 2008 was the birth of a new era for the country’s coffee industry. The industry stakeholders developed the Strategy to support the development of a sustainable and a competitive coffee industry in Papua New Guinea.

The Coffee Industry Strategic Plan emphasises a “paradigm shift”
where the focus is on the growers and to revive the spirit of key
players of the industry to continue working on coffee. The Strategy aims to maximise financial returns to coffee producers and
contribute to the Government’s economic and social policy goals.  

Coffee is grown in 15 of the 20 provinces of PNG and
if seriously looked at, can be used as a development tool to improve
the lives of many in the rural areas who are associated with it. Most households in the Highlands provinces of PNG depend on coffee as a main source of income as there is no other major alternative cash
crop.

New growth areas are also arising in the lowland areas of the country but farmers have to build the interest to farm coffee besides other competitive lowland cash crop trees such as cocoa and copra. Coffee income in PNG also provides spin-off effects to other industries such as transportation, construction, manufacturing, retailing, banking and other industries.  Coffee also creates employment in other sectors of the economy, particularly in the Highlands provinces. Coffee’s importance to the local PNG industry cannot be over-emphasised as it generates about K350 million annually where 60%-70% of the income goes to the households that farm coffee as a cash crop. 

The Coffee Industry Corporation Ltd of PNG is the entity responsible for the country’s coffee and has taken the initiative to develop the Plan. The CIC will provide leadership and support services to the country’s industry through this Plan.

The Coffee Industry Plan aims to drive the industry forward with refocused avenues for the industry to be better enhanced and more sustainable.

The Plan was launched by Eastern Highlands Province Deputy Governor and Member for Obura-Wonenara, Honourable John Boito.

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