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 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 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.

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 coffee report discusses market development, global trends, quotes, production, exports, promotion, bounty rates and export prices. It also covers coffee imports, retail prices, mini loans for smallholders and domestic consumption. This report contains useful graphs and figures.

This coffee report of October 1988 continues to report data on the coffee market developments, global trends and quotas, consumption and production, export revenues, bounty rates, and coffee prices. It contains updated information on the average values of sales since previous report as well as forecasted production and stock information.

This coffee report of April 1990 provides an updated report on the PNG coffee industry and contains data on its market development, domestic and global trends and forecasts, provincial production and exports, prices and bounty rates, and exchange rates. It also contains tables showing these data sets.

This coffee report provides an updated summary report of the PNG coffee industry and ICO news. This report contains data on market price developments, world and domestic coffee supply and exports, domestic trends and developments, provincial production, market share and performance of the exporters, and the coffee industry fund and bounty and coffee prices.

This item contains a letter from Economist Tiri Kuibakul responding to Mr MacWilliam’s letter that contains information on the economists for the coffee industry.
The quarterly report of March 1993 is included in this item and it reports on signs of recovery in coffee prices since October 1991. It contains statistics on the distribution of production by provinces and updates on trends in coffee prices, forecasts for world production and general expectations for coffee prices.

This coffee report gives an updated summary of the coffee industry and ICO news. The ICO is experiencing its end as the United States is exiting the organisation. However world market and price development show that coffee prices have been higher than they were during the same period of last year.
This report contains updated data on world coffee supply and exports and stock, domestic trends and developments, coffee production by province and sector, market share and performance by exporter, recent studies, and publications. Useful graphs and tables on the data are also included in this report.