The invitation was given during the National Planning Consultative Summit in Lae on March 20-22, 2018.
The ICC (PPAP coffee Board) Chairman Ian Mopafi says availability of accessible roads have been a main obstacle against efforts to increasing coffee production targets set by the National Government.
“Rural roads in all parts of the country including coffee growing provinces have deteriorated and become impassable making it difficult for 80 percent of between 3 and 4 million growers who are concentrated in the countryside to transport their coffees to the market.”
