This quarterly report provide a summary update of the coffee industry through the Industry Affairs Division and contains important data and statistic on coffee development market prices, world coffee supply and exports, world production and stocks, domestic trend and developments, provincial production, exports and prices, coffee industry fund, market share and performance by exporters.

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 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 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 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 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.

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.

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 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 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.