Coffee Industry Corporation’s Productive Partnerships in Agriculture Project (CIC-PPAP)

This follows the signing of a contract agreement for a 5.1km Kapalku - Ngumbkora access road in North Waghi of Jiwaka Province.

The works agreement for Tender No. CSTB 3188 was signed at Central Supply and Tenders Board (CSTB) office in Gordon, NCD, on Monday 9 April, 2018. Parties to the agreement are CSTB and private local firm Lorma Construction Ltd.

The signing paves way for rehabilitation of the rural road to serve 5,000-plus people of eight villages between Kapalku and Ngumbkora. Some big villages in the area are Napalm, Engendered, Malang and Ngumbkora.

Manager of Coffee Industry Corporation’s Productive Partnerships in Agriculture Project (CIC-PPAP), Potaisa Hombunaka, urges MPs to focus on building and maintaining rural roads to improve access of rural communities to markets and services.

“Our mothers feel the pain of carrying heavy loads to climb mountains and cross rivers to sell their coffee or garden produce,” Hombunaka said.

“Just build the roads and forget about us. Roads will take care of other services.”

The last two lines received overwhelming cheers or support from the crowd.

Philip Timbe of Hatavile Coffee, a lead partner of Coffee Industry Corporation’s Productive Partnerships in Agriculture Project (CIC-PPAP), issued this challenge to his 400 farmers under the partnership who gathered to collect their basic coffee gardening tools at Wantrifu Village on 9 September.

“Operation rausim haus kunai has commenced as of today. By 2020 everyone must own a permanent house.

“If not, I will walk into the haus lain with a box of matches to burn down all haus kunai.”