Organic New Guinea Onaka Agoga GP – Medium Roast

This coffee is Co-Op grown Fair Trade certified coffee.

After oil palm, coffee is Papua New Guinea's second largest agricultural export, employing approximately 2.5 million people. The most important export industry (highest foreign exchange earner for the country) of Papua New Guinea is the coffee industry which has the distinction of being known as the "Serendipitous Coffee Experiences in Papua New Guinea." Grown in the Eastern Highland Province, sans the tag of colonial based industry, because of its production by small farmers (with land holdings that grow as low as 20 trees per plot called the "coffee gardens", contiguous to other food crops) in isolated places, it is mostly certified as "organic coffee."

An estimated 87,000 hectares (210,000 acres) is under coffee cultivation in Papua New Guinea.[1] The majority of the coffee is grown in the highlands, where 70% of the population are dependent upon subsistence agriculture.

In Papua New Guinea there are approximately 2.5 million people employed in the industry, with 280,000 smallholder coffee growers, 660 larger farmers cultivating areas of 1–30 hectares (2.5–74 acres), 65 large plantations, 18 registered exporters, 51 registered processors and over 6,000 roadside buyers.[9] However, although 12 provinces are active in the coffee industry, the bulk of coffee (approximately 90%) is produced in the five highlands provinces, Western Highlands (45%), Eastern Highlands (37%), Simbu (6%), Morobe (5%) and East Sepik (5%).[1]

In the late 1990s, the country produced an average of 1.18 million bags annually, of which all were exported.[1] Washed mild arabica highland coffee dominates the industry in Papua New Guinea (PNG), accounting for 95% of production, the other 5% being lowland washed robusta.[1] The robusta coffee is of poorer quality, being darker, more bitter, with less flavour that the Arabic variety is generally used for cheaper instant coffee.[11] On the other hand, the higher quality arabica coffee is generally sold for making espresso, cappuccino and latte in the European markets of Switzerland, Germany, France and Italy and for American coffee companies such as Starbucks.[11] The vast majority of the coffee sold to North America is grown in the West and East Highlands on estates; mainly Sigri and Arona coffee respectively.