First coffee export for firm

The National Business

By ZACHERY PER
THE Rumbia Coffee Exports, owned by the people of Eastern Highlands, has sent its first 300 bags of green bean coffee to South Korea.
The 300 bags will earn the farmers more than K250,000.
Governor Peter Numu, speaking at the Rumbia Coffee Export factory in Goroka, said it was the company’s first export with more orders being received from coffee importers.
“This is an achievement by the company in less than six months after its establishment,” he said.
“To arrive at the first export and getting higher price for the coffee produced is historical.”
Numu said the company would help farmers earn money.
They are buying parchment coffee at K4.50 per kilogramme.
“Even remote areas such as Unavi in Lufa, or Marawaka in the Obura-Wonenara, coffee farmers will receive K4.50 – the same price farmers in Goroka or Kainantu towns are enjoying,” Numu said.
“I am giving K124,000 to subsidise airfreight to bring coffee from these remote areas into Goroka.”
The Missionary Aviation Fellowship (MAF) aircraft will transport coffee for processing and export.
Numu said 70 per cent of export revenue would go to the province.
They will also look at ways to increase coffee plantations and revive run-down ones.
Acting provincial administrator Ipae Maniha said Eastern Highlands needed more money to run it effectively and bring in foreign currency through export earnings.

9 comments

  • A great achievement for Rumbia Coffee Exports since its establishment. Thank you Governor and MP for Eastern Highlands.

  • Hard work pays off and Rumbia Coffee exports is one fine example. In the past paper coffee exporters without a single coffee tree ripped off from farmers. Rumbia is one of our locals taking back our coffee from the middle man.

  • How about the Nokondi Investment, the vibrant business arm of the Provincial Government in its hey days?? Is it dysfunctional or been looted?

  • Well-done! rehabilitate rundown coffee plantations so that next export could double or triple the number of bags.

  • Please dont get excited for a K250,000 export is about k13.80/kg but thats nothing new.
    My question is , how much is the grower who has done all the hard work getting from this? I sincerely hope its not the usual K2-k4/kg.

  • On be up of the Marawaka community, I thank you Hon. Peter Numu EHP governor to reach the unreachable community of Yelia through this initiative taken.
    Coffee is one of the commodity that contribute towards the economy of the country. It is a financial strength that boast some remote areas in terms of financial burdens like school fees and so on.

    Marawaka in Eastern Highland is very remote that heavily depends on coffee and pig to pay for school fee and other basic goods and services. Marawaka is so called the land of pure organic COFFEE roots or coffee growers however due to no consistent coffee buyers all growers were largely ignored to look after coffee. Since the RUBIA COFFEE inplace would activate the community to realized the importance of coffee at this point. I would say it would be better if Rubia coffee can establish one coffee mill their to cater for the long run in the area not a seasonal.

    Thank you.

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