AGRICULTURE

Code: 410 - There are many run down coffee plantation scattered throughout the Waghi Valley in the Western Highlands Province. The areas are effectively under coffee range from 10 hectares to well over 500 hectares. The coffee plantations have not been managed in a prudent and sustainable manner in order to maintain production whilst continuing to generate revenue to sustain the coffee plantations. This has led to the run down of highly productive plantations and this proposal is to solicit funding whereby the financial will partner with owners to rehabilitate their plantations based on mutually agreed terms and conditions. This is based on the fact that owners are unable to source the required funding from any financial insitution on the country to support rehabilitation. The rehabilitation program will also arrange to establish central processing facilities for the coffee produced from the plantations. The financier will own majority share of the processing facility to produce up to marketable green bean whereby expenditure incurred for rehabilitation of coffee will be covered from the export of green bean to establish overseas.