| Coffee Rehabilitation in WHP (01/09/10) |
Coffee rehabilitation, nursery and replanting programs in the Western Highlands Province has been given top priority by the Coffee Industry Corporation (CIC) Ltd to be launched hopefully in the Dei District later this month (September) under an MOU with the Western Highlands Provincial (WHP) Government signed recently.
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| Coffee Berry Borer Update (16/07/10) |
The destructive Coffee Berry Borer (CBB) is likely to be detected inside the PNG side of the border with Indonesia and the government is being urged to allocate funds to contain it.
Coffee Industry Corporation’s (CIC) Acting General Manager for the Research & Grower Services Division based in Aiyura, Dr. Mark Kenny revealed this in Lae recently while attending a two week program planning workshop for the CIC.
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| Coffee Price Increase (24/05/10) |
Coffee price in PNG has increased by 20 per cent this month compared to the same period in the previous year.
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| Successful Coffee Cooperative Society |
Coffee marketing in a group will generate high volume of coffee and raise more revenue for smallholder farmers. Hence, the Coffee Industry Corporation Ltd, who is tasked to regulate and promote PNG Coffee is encouraging and promoting group marketing through Co-operative Societies registered with the Department of Commerce and Industry or with the Investment Promotion Authority.
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| Successful Female Coffee Buyer |
The dramatic increase in coffee price this year has lured many into the coffee business. One of them and the only noticeable female competitor to other male buyers in town is Mrs. Repy Mopafi from Bena in the Eastern Highlands Province.
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| Moratorium on Seed Distribution (25/04/10) |
The Coffee Industry Corporation (CIC) has placed a temporary moratorium on the distribution of coffee seeds in the PNG/Indonesian Boarder areas in a move to detect the presence of the Coffee Berry Borer [Hypothenemus hampei (Ferrari) (Col., Scolytide)].
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| Autonomous Region of Bougainville, Keen on Growing Coffee |
“Those areas in the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, that cannot grow either cocoa or coconut as their cash crop, really want to grow coffee.”
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| Cherry Coffee Trading Illegal (03/05/10) |
The Coffee Industry Corporation has warned coffee farmers and traders that the Regulated Cherry Trade Policy imposed by the Coffee Industry Corporation (CIC) is current & effective and operations are underway to arrest perpetrators with the advent of the 2010 coffee season.
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| First Wet Factory for Okapa District (29/04/10) |
The first ever Coffee Wet factory in the Okapa District of Eastern Highlands Province was launched recently by the Nayatauro Coffee Growers Association recently.
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| Bris Kanda Partners with CIC (23/03/10) |
Bris Kanda Incorporation has signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with the Coffee Industry Corporation (CIC) Ltd with the aim to improve sustainability of the rural population of Huon Gulf electorate in the Morobe Province through coffee production.
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| First Somatic Clones for Robusta Coffee (16/03/2010) |
The search for an elite Robusta Coffee planting material for lowland farmers is keeping the Coffee Industry Corporation (CIC) Ltd on its toes as various techniques are experimented.
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| Conservative Coffee Farming, a way to go (15/03/2010) |
The Coffee Industry Corporation (CIC) Ltd’s extension services have paid off again following the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Tree Kangaroo Conservation Program in Lae, Morobe Province.
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