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New deal for coffee growers
By ZACHERY PER
THE members of small coffee
co-operatives under PNG Coffee Growers Federation (PNGCGF) have
been given the rare chance to market their Jamaica’s blue mountain
coffee variety overseas.
This is being made possible by a US-based major partner Coffee
Pacifica which has an exclusive right to market the “blue
mountain” coffee variety worldwide.
PNGCGF chairman Jon Yogiyo said this would benefit about 120,000
individual growers in 11 of the 13 coffee-growing provinces.
He said the growers were actively producing the Jamaican coffee
variety.
Mr Yogiyo said they were doing what the Government had been
preaching about “but had done nothing for the last 30 years”.
O’Neil Blake, general manager of the Blue Mountain Coffee
Co-operative Society’s (BMCC), said Coffee Pacifica would be the
exclusive world-wide marketer and distributor of the “Penlyne
castle” and “Jamaican blue mountain” coffee beans produced in
Jamaica.
Mr Blake said BMCC was a Jamaican-incorporated society comprising
of 3,000 Jamaican coffee farmers producing and exporting the
Jamaican variety since 1949.
“Joining Coffee Pacifica’s distribution system allows us to
participate globally on a ‘growers direct’ basis to increase
visibility, demand and prices for our world-renowned Jamaica blue
mountain green beans, he said.
 
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