AN Israeli company has been engaged by Southern Highlands Governor William Powi to establish a coffee factory in the province.
The team and Powi are expected to be in Southern Highlands this week to talk to coffee growers and to select an ideal location for the factory. Peter Aku – the owner of Topa coffee plantation in the Mendi district – said the move by Powi to establish a coffee factory in the province was a relief to many coffee growers. Comparing the past, he said there had been lack of government support, which led to many rundown plantations. “Coffee is the predominant source of cash income and there is a greater potential for increasing yields and raising farm income,” he said. He thanked the National Government for working in partnership with the World Bank to improve coffee productivity in the country. The World Bank under the project productive partnership in agriculture funded about K200 million to improve small holder productivity. Aku said the provincial government had so far released between K6-7 million to revive the cash crop in the country. “People have the land but the lack of government funding over the years have made people to be lazy in which majority of the people have become street sellers at Mendi town,” he said. PNG Facts/The National Comments are closed.
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