Papua New Guinea facts:

Papua New Guinea; one of the world’s most diverse countries and also the least explored with 852 known languages

The original coffee seedlings were planted in 1927 from Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee beans.

Coffee production is the country’s second largest agricultural export, after palm oil

Papua new guinea accounts for approximately 1% of the world’s coffee production

The majority of the coffee is primarily exported to Germany, Australia, and the USA.

Coffee ‘gardens’ not farms, are the norm. These small plantation produce around 85% of the country’s coffee.

Small-scale farmers make up more than 85% of the coffee producers in Papua New Guinea, typically cultivating just a few hectares of land. These gardens are very small compared to the more modern coffee farms, and coffee is most likely not the only crop they grow because the country survives on its agriculture. 

The majority of the population does not have access to the internet (only 10%) or telephones (only 55%) . One positive side of this lack of connectivity is that it has caused PNG coffee to be naturally grown without pesticides or other agro-chemicals. As a result, a large amount of the country's coffee is certified organic, although most coffee is grown using organic methods even if it is not certifi