In an interview with Business Advantage PNG, Monpi Coffee Exports Manager, Joeri Kalwij, says the low production is due to a number of factors which are:
Poor training of farmers and the state of the trees; bottlenecks at ports due to lengthy and complex export bureaucracy; substandard mills; and the country’s declining infrastructure.
At the top of the list is road and bridge infrastructure, which Kalwij says is crucial for famers in rural PNG to transport their coffee, but has been affected to natural disasters.
