Coffee Industry Corporation strategic move gets K10 million blessing 

Prime Minister James Marape has applauded the Coffee Industry Corporation's [CIC] strategic move.  

Speaking at the official opening of the K10.6 million Coffee Exports Office Complex in the provincial capital of Morobe Province, he said the strategic planning will increase coffee exports.

In this term of Parliament, it is the first time since Independence that the executive government had created a sole ministry responsible for coffee, with a policy to increase the export volumes of this agricultural produce.

Prime Minister Marape’s commitment to his government's agriculture policy saw him present a cheque of K10 million to CIC chief executive officer Charles Dambui to drive the government’s agenda.  

The prime minister also challenged districts, provinces, government departments and agencies who have been given hundreds of millions of government funding over many years but have achieved little.

“One of the reasons why Papua New Guinea has not progressed over the last 49 years is that we have been using funds without achieving anything. This is something that we should all be ashamed of.”

The newly inaugurated coffee exports building opened this week is situated on Kisere Street in Lae and will coordinate operations, including contract registration, shipment notification, contract verification, physical coffee inspection, sampling, recording/logging, quality analysis, export certification, and overseeing the movement of coffee to the wharf for shipment.