Society helping coffee farmers

By ZACHERY PER
THE largest cooperative society in the Highlands, Apo Angra Angna Kange (AAAK) Coffee Corporative, delivered gardening tools to two churches in Chimbu last week.
The presentation was in line with one of AAAK’s visions to provide tools to members to help them work their coffee gardens.
The tools presented included knapsack sprayers, saws, spades, bush knives, gloves and overalls.
These were given to members in Goglme Catholic Church and Lutheran Church in the Mitnande area of Gembogl sub-district.
The corporative’s general manager, Brian Kuglame ,and executives of other coffee cluster groups from Chimbu’s Angra Coffee Cooperative and chairman Jerry Kimam delivered the tools.
Kuglame said giving tools to farmers was one of the three key pillars of the cooperative. The other two are providing advice and giving seeds for farmers affiliated to them.
“There was a huge gap between the church and the government,” he said. “AAAK is now going to act as a middleman to bridge this gap therefore we have started working with all Christian churches.”
Kuglame said the Corporative was invited by the government to make a presentation at the recent agriculture summit in Port Moresby.