How did you get the coffee from Papua New Guinea? how's the coffee from Papua New Guinea?

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In 1885, the island of New Guinea became a colony for the first time, with Germany occupying the north and Britain occupying the south. At that time, the rugged, mountainous interior had not yet been mapped, and people thought it was too desolate to live in. Until 1930, an Australian prospector ventured to the eastern highlands in search of gold and found huge and fertile valleys inhabited by more than 1 million people from more than 400 different tribes. Missionaries soon poured into the area and brought the first coffee seedlings. In the 1950s, an active policy to encourage the establishment of rural coffee gardens began to be implemented. Bourbon and Blue Mountain were the first varieties to be used, and by the 1970s, more than 25000 hectares of Arabica coffee had been grown in the entire PNG Highlands.

Today, coffee is the backbone of the rural economy and the main source of income for more than 40% of the population. About 95% of the producers are small farmers, who usually have dozens to hundreds of trees in their small coffee plantations, which they grow with bananas, papayas and legumes.

The diversity of Papua New Guinea is incredible. In the fertile coffee-growing areas of the highlands, the number of villages ranges from dozens to tens of thousands. These villages speak more than 800 languages and have historically been linguistically isolated from each other. Intertribal violence is not uncommon and is still a continuing problem today. Coupled with underdeveloped infrastructure outdated machines and inconsistent processing methods this means that finding high-quality plots and sending them to the outside world can be a challenge. Papua New Guinea produces only about 1% of the world's Arabica coffee.

Coffee cups vary in shape according to different grades and regions, but generally have chocolate, tropical fruit and citrus flavors.

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