External threats such as pest infestation and adverse weather conditions could reduce earnings prospects for Papua New Guinea’s coffee industry this year, despite efforts...
EASTERN HIGHLANDS PROVINCE, Papua New Guinea – Papua New Guinea's Coffee Industry Corporation Ltd says having a team of newly qualified graders should lead to much higher returns for smallholder farmers. It has trained its first four Q graders, whose job it is to assess the quality of the coffee for acidity, body, flavour, aftertaste and ...
PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea – A firm from Papua New Guinea plans to tap into the Chinese coffee market by the end of this year by selling its brand of specialty coffee. Duffy Coffee Roasters founder, Travers Chue, announced that after years of planning they are ready to take “Duffy Specialty Coffee’ overseas.
PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea – Papua New Guinea coffee industry is gearing up its first ever Q-grader training, which will be conducted by a renowned coffee specialist from Indonesia. Adi Taroepratjeka, a Q and R grader, and also a Q instructor will be in the country this month to carry out training for 12 participants on ...
GAINESVILLE, Florida, U.S. – A University of Florida team’s novel methods are helping farmers at home and abroad fight agricultural pests. An insect no bigger than a grain of rice is threatening coffee worldwide, but a team of University of Florida researchers is using some unconventional thinking to stop it in its tracks.
PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea – Authorities in Papua New Guinea are scrambling to determine how far coffee borer beetle has spread across the country. Native to Africa, the beetle is considered one of the most harmful coffee crop pests in the world. The Ministry of Agriculture said 80 percent of PNG's coffee production could be lost if ...
Papua New Guinea coffee producer and exporter Patrick Killoran of Banz Kofi, is diplomatic about coffee drinking in different countries. He would not say...
The National Executive Council has endorsed Papua New Guinea’s membership to the International Cocoa Organization (ICCO) and the signing of the International Cocoa Agreement...
In early June, Producer Support Officer Will Valverde and Liaison Officer Gabriel Iso launched the project “Coffee quality improvement though wet coffee mills” in...