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.

Economist Tiri Kuimbakul writes this discussion paper describing how the international coffee marketing chain works, focusing on how the market ensures that coffee gets from the grower to the consumer and how prices are set by the market. It discusses the process of how coffee gets from the grower to the consumer. This paper contains a description of the process between the grower, processor, exporter and trader. Some useful information included in this paper covers coffee process as it reaches the factories, contracts with exporters, quality control and shipping, trading hedging, and marketing reports.

Economist Duncan Overfield writes this discussion paper on smallholder and marketing groups and discusses implementation methods and current development levels of group marketing, the economic performance of marketing groups and policy recommendations. It contains their performance assessment over the period of 1989 to 1992.

Micro economist Duncan Overfield and Economist Kessy Kufinale wrote this paper as an economic assessment of coffee research and research priorities. It includes discussion on economic context of research, economic value of coffee research and research priorities. This paper also presents proposals for future monitoring and evaluation.

This paper is on the smallholder coffee system production costs, grower returns and economic sustainability and it is concerned with costs of production in the smallholder coffee sector and the associated economic returns to its labour. It contains (1) smallholder production levels and associated yields, (2) labour inputs and appropriate economic evaluation (3) Smallholder production costs, (4) prices and marketing patterns (5) grower returns, (6) Coffee production and labour inputs and (7) policy recommendations for sustainability.

This paper by Duncan Overfield is a reprint of a chapter in Agricultural Development Strategies for Melanesia: Tough Choices edited by Fleming, E.M. and Hardaker, J.B to be published by ANU Press, Canberra, Australia. It discusses household objectives and constraints over the development of smallholder coffee farming systems in Papua New Guinea. It covers household objectives on producing enough to eat, cash income generation, risk management, complimentary roles, internal and external constraints as well policy implications for the 21st Century.