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 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.

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 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.

This coffee report discusses market development in coffee industry. It covers global trends and quotas, price projections to 2000, production and export figures. This report also contains useful graphs.

This quarterly paper reports on summary update of the PNG coffee industry and reports on market development, global production trends and forecasts, provincial production, export grades and destinations, export and domestic prices, costs of coffee production, industry fund and bounty rates and market share performance by the exporters. This report contains tables and graphs based on the aforementioned data.

This report provides a summary of the PNG coffee industry and news from the ICO council. It also reports on updated data on market developments, global and domestic production trends and forecasts, provincial production, exports by destinations and grades, export and domestic prices, market share and performance by the exporter, price projections and coffee industry fund and bounty. Graphs and tables are provided to support these data.