Papua New Guinea (PNG) occupies the eastern half of the island it shares with the Indonesian province of Irian Jaya, part of IndonesiaUSDA is (obviously) the United States Department of Agriculture. USDA also had coffee plant breeding programs in the past and one variety they distributed to Indonesia and was... ...more. The two primary areas for coffee production can be grouped roughly as the Eastern Highlands, centered on the town of Kainantu, and the Western Highlands, with the towns of Goroka and Mount Hagen. PNG is a former commonwealth and has vestiges of a cultural link to Australia and Great Britain, as well as a whiff of colonialism in the coffee plantation system that was set up before independence. There are also many small-holder farmers who have “coffee gardens” and bring their coffee to cooperative organizations. The coffees can be bright and clean, with little in common with other growing regions such as Indonesian islands. The coffee system imported mainly from TanzaniaIn terms of the Tanzania coffee character, it belongs to the Central/East African family of washed (wet-processed) coffees, bright (acidy), and mostly aggressively flavorful of which Kenya is... ...more and KenyaKenya is the East African powerhouse of the coffee world. Both in the cup, and the way they run their trade, everything is topnotch.: Kenya is the East... ...more involved traditional wet-process, often with a double fermentationFermentation in coffee processing traditionally referred to the stage in wet-processing of the coffee. We now understand that fermentation happens more broadly in nearly all processes, including honey... ...more and soaking, before being sun dried.
