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 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.

Economist Kessy Kufinale writes this discussion paper on the case of Catimor in Papua New Guinea. This paper evaluates Catimor, a larger research project in PNG, to provide a justification for its introduction in PNG and to provide economic values and establishment in this field.

This paper describes plantation cost of production survey in 1995. It discusses the survey, its methodology, characteristics of respondent plantations and factories and discusses the results. It also refers to relevant issues of labour costs, profitability, competitiveness and yields.

This coffee report of January 1989 continues to report data on coffee market developments, global trends and quotas, exports and production, bounty rates and prices. It includes graphs on average export prices for both Arabica and Robusta coffee.

This coffee report of April 1989 provides updated report on coffee market developments as well as data on coffee production and exports, global trends and quotas, and bounty rates. This report contains coffee statistics and tables on average prices per exporter of robust and Arabica coffee.

This coffee report of October 1989 shares data on market development, global trends and forecasts, domestic trends and developments, and production and export rates. This report also contains useful tables on coffee exports and other coffee statistics.

This coffee report of January 1990 provides updated report on coffee market developments and data on provincial production, exports by grades and destination, bounty rates, export and domestic prices and projection of future prices.

This item contains a quarterly report on the coffee Industry and ICO news. It also contains updated data on market price development, world coffee supply and exports, domestic trends and developments, provincial production, exports and prices, as well as market share and performance by exporters. This report also contains useful graphs and table on the data.
Included in this item is a letter to Mr David Smith from Scott MacWilliam requesting for copies of certain papers including a copy of Vol. 1 of the McGowan Report.

This paper reported on the PNG coffee Industry and ICO and ACPC News. It contains reports on world supply and demand, domestic trends, and developments, export levy and price support loan repayments, exchange rate, government decisions impact on coffee and training.