By Baeau Tai
PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea (The National, Feb. 28) - Papua New Guinea’s high quality premium-grade coffee will have the opportunity for a bigger exposure at this year’s Small Cap Stock Expo in New York today.
Coffee Pacifica, one of only 20 coffee companies, has been invited to the event, which attracts small cap experts, analysts, and members of the investment community.
PNG Coffee Growers Federation Ltd is Coffee Pacifica’s strategic partner and a major shareholder.
PNGCGF’s shareholders are 179 individual independent coffee grower co-operatives in 11 of the 13 coffee growing provinces in the country.
This represents approximately more than 120,000 individual coffee farmers involved in producing co-operative coffee.
The high quality premium-grade coffee produced by the co-operatives are pooled and marketed by Coffee Pacifica.
In PNG, approximately 86 percent of the exported coffee is annually produced by the small...