Dambui visits coffee airstrips in Milne Bay

The Coffee Industry Corporation [CIC] and its partners visited Alotau District’s coffee growing communities and, more importantly, checked out the nearest airstrips where farmers can take coffee out.
They visited airstrip sites in Agaun and Rabaraba station.

Coffee Industry Corporation’s chief executive officer Charles Dambui says this was a trip related to Government’s Coffee Freight Subsidy Program.

He says it was equally important to gauge production too and he was pleased to find a lot of coffee bags out there waiting to be brought to market in these areas only accessible by airstrips. He says it’s instances as such that the freight program can support.

He was accompanied by Alotau Open MP Ricky Morris and a representative from the Rural Airstrips Agency/ RAA, the district doing their part in recently signing on third level airline Niugini Aviation Services and RAA to survey and subsequently maintain the Agaun and Rabaraba airstrips for this coffee purpose.