This paper is on the results of the Group Assessment survey that was carried out with the coffee plantation managers from the Eastern Highlands Province. The finding shows that with the increasing production costs, Papua New Guinea plantations could hardly cover their operating costs. It includes graphs of their monthly export costs and other operational costs.

This paper is presented for the a workshop organised by National Centre for Development Studies at the Australian National University in Brisbane 5-8 February 1991. It provides some background information on the size marketing margins at the processing and export stage for the last five years and presents a simple analysis o the prices series.

This discussion paper attempts to quantify smallholder responses to changes in prices using historical time-series data and assesses the value of the economic, social and cultural factors that influence price movements showing that there is a relation between prices and supply. The study also includes qualitative approach. This paper then offers policy implications as well as future areas for policy research on coffee sector.

This discussion paper attempts to quantify smallholder responses to changes in prices using historical time-series data and assesses the value of the economic, social and cultural factors that influence price movements showing that there is a relation between prices and supply. The study also includes qualitative approach. This paper then offers policy implications as well as future areas for policy research on coffee sector.

The Coffee Industry Act of 1976 mandated the lodging and completion of a plantation survey form. In 1991, two sets of surveys the compulsory (1) Plantation survey form and the optional (2) cost of survey form were sent out to the existing plantations and block developments identified and listed by the Coffee Board Inspectors in 1988 to update their listing database as well as and cost of production in the plantation sector. Despite receiving poor response rate due to several contributing factors,
this paper further discusses plantation surveys results and included different tables showing plantation survey results in 1989 and 1990 as well as plantation costs of production.

This paper discusses the study of smallholder research and monitoring, and it is designed to collect reliable data on factors that affect and influence coffee production and to disentangle the individual factors and quantify their impact. This paper contains material on methodological considerations, data analysis and preliminary monitoring results of this study. It can be useful in areas related to rural development in Papua New Guinea.The study lasted until the end of 1993.

This paper discusses proposal for economic evaluation of scientific research in the coffee sector. Included in the study are (1) priority setting methods and their critical factors (2) further considerations in the economic evaluation of scientific research (3) the proposed evaluation systems and its application and (4) its establishment of priorities. Overall, the paper reviews the appropriate methods at the research level to help identify the most effective method.

This paper is on coffee and smallholder households in Benabena District, Eastern Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea with its economic issues and interim results. It discusses (1) smallholder coffee production: household statistics, (2) Coffee as part of rural livelihood systems, (3) Determinants of household coffee production and income levels, and (4) Policy implications.

This paper is on the cost-benefit study on the use of mobile coffee hullers in remote areas of Papua New Guinea and their regulatory implications. Smallholder coffee growers have difficulty selling their coffee due to bad road conditions and high transportation costs. Furthermore, the coffee produced by smallholder growers is considered as “Y’ graded despite the good quality of their coffee. So this paper assesses the use of transportable coffee hullers in remote areas of PNG to help coffee growers reduce their cost and expenses. This paper contains five sections, (1) different types of mobile hullers available from different manufacturers, (2) analysis of possible costs and benefits of mobile hullers using different scenarios and possible costs, (3) the suitability and appropriateness of mobile hullers in PNG and finally and (4) discusses the regulatory implications by introducing mobile hullers in PNG.