PNG allows small coffee growers to export products directly.

The Messenger Post reported on May 26 that PNG Minister of Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Tomskel recently announced that small coffee growers could directly export coffee abroad without having to change hands through a few large middlemen, and required that export licenses be issued to each coffee producing area by October this year. Tomskel says this will increase the price of small coffee growers and increase their profits; the government will also provide them with training to help them get familiar with the business more quickly.

The PNG coffee industry, which began with the introduction of seeds from Jamaica in 1926-27, is now the second largest export agricultural product after palm oil (9.47,0.18,1.87 per cent), with a working population of about 2.5 million and a planting area of about 87000 hectares.