Coffee R oasting

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Dear Stovers

Just a quick note regarding JohnO's e-mail of the 3rd that talked about the
possibility of using husks as a fuel so the coffee growers can roast their
coffee before exporting.

I don't know whether this applies to the other coffee growing countries,
but here in Papua New Guinea coffee husks are really only used by the
larger processors when they "dry" the coffee (to between 2 or 4% moisture
content) before exporting.

The actual roasting is done by individual coffee companies generally in
North America and Europe. This is because a lot of the coffee is actually
blended to give different flavours, for example Papua New Guinea gets paid
a premium for it's coffee because it has a very good taste (we said the
best!) and it is mixed with some of the lower grade coffees.  So in terms
of roasting it here in PNG, this wouldn't make economic sense.

In the same way it is uneconomical for Papua New Guinea to start up a
instant coffee factory and in fact although we are a major coffee grower in
the Pacific we import all our instant coffee from the Philippines.  This is
primarily done because the coffee grown in Papua New Guinea is of such a
high quality that it would be wasteful to use this(in total) in instant
coffee, as generally instant coffee is made of the low grade coffees !.  I
hope this hasn't put you off your morning cuppa.

Regards


Steve Layton



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