Coffee category: Bold
Process: Washed
What to expect: If you are looking for a bolder single origin that has lots of body then coffee from Papua New Guinea is a great option. Expect lots of sweetness from this coffee with dark chocolate, biscuit and pecan notes.
Producer: Various small holder farmers
Region: Western Highlands
Altitude: 1,400-1,900m above sea level
Varietals: Arusha, Bourbon, Typica
Kunjin is a program setup that sources coffee from various smallholder producers in PNG's Western Highlands. Coffees are delivered in cherry form by producers who own an average of 1.5 hectares of land, with about 2,500 coffee trees per hectare maximum.
Papua New Guinea
In the contemporary global coffee industry, Papua New Guinea is wholly unique both in how coffee is harvested and exported from the country. While there are some estates and plantations, most coffee production comes from smallholder farmers, each with around 1–2 hectares of land called “gardens” on which they grow small amounts of coffee along with whatever else a family or community might need for use or sale.
Sourcing coffee in Papua New Guinea poses unique logistical, cultural, and linguistic challenges. The country’s many indigenous populations are often very distinct from one another in terms of custom and language, and individual communities might comprise only a few hundred people, making communication and the cultural sensitivity required to do business here more difficult than in other coffee-growing regions. Less than 10 percent of the population is connected to or uses the Internet for communications, and there are roughly 55 telephones (both fixed-line and cellular) for every 100 people.
