page_title: Coffee production in Papua New Guinea
section_title: Product
hierarchical_section_title: Coffee production in Papua New Guinea / Product
caption_attribution_description: English: A ristretto doppio in Chiang Mai, Thailand. The cup at the bottom of the image contains the first half, and the cup on the right contains the second half of a standard single shot espresso.
context_page_description: Coffee production in Papua New Guinea is the country's second largest agricultural export, after oil palm, and employs approximately 2.5 million people. It accounts for approximately 1% of world production, according to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development.
  Coffee is the highest foreign exchange earner for Papua New Guinea, the majority of which is grown in the Eastern Highland Province, the Western Highland Province, and Simbu. With the industry not derived on a colonial plantation-based system, production is largely by small farmers with land holdings that grow as little as 20 trees per plot in "coffee gardens" alongside subsistence crops. Predominantly in isolated places, the product is mostly certified as "organic coffee".
context_section_description: The coffee is naturally produced given that synthetic fertilisers and pesticides are too expensive and unobtainable which results in coffee with naturally low levels of caffeine and acidity. Papua New Guinean coffee is said to have medium body, low to medium acidity, a syrupy mouthfeel and often fruity notes.
  The Coffee Industry Corporation Ltd., as an umbrella organisation, has regulated, facilitated, and also provided research and extension services to the coffee farming community. This has been enabled in the form of incentives to farmers to sustain production with due care for quality and marketing facilities.
caption: A "doppio ristretto" in Chiang Mai, Thailand, that, amongst others, contains coffee beans from Sigri, New Guinea
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