Papua New Guinea Coffee Estate Flavor Taste Introduction Bird of Paradise Estate

Papua New Guinea is the second largest country in the South Pacific after Australia in terms of population and area. It consists of New Guinea in the north and Papua in the south. It borders Irian Jaya province in Indonesia to the west and Australia across the Torres Strait to the south. It belongs to the Melanesian Islands.

Papua New Guinea has a land area of 462,840 square kilometers, a coastline of 8300 kilometers and a water area of 2.4 million square kilometers including the 200 nautical mile exclusive economic zone (2013). There are more than 600 islands throughout the country. The islands are mountainous, volcanic and earthquake prone. Including New Guinea (Irian Island) East, New England Island, New Ireland Island, Manas Island, Bougainville Island, Buka Island and so on. [3]

terrain

Papua New Guinea consists of plains and lowlands in the south, a central mountain range in the middle, and several separate mountains running parallel to the mountain range in the north. [3]

climate

Papua New Guinea has a mountainous climate except for those above 1000 meters above sea level, and the rest of the lower elevation areas have a tropical rain forest climate. The dry season is from May to October, and the rainy season is from November to April. The average temperature in coastal areas is 21.1~32.2℃, and that in mountainous areas is 5~6℃ lower than that in coastal areas. The average annual precipitation is 2500 mm. The highlands of New Guinea have long been settled. [3]

resources

Rich in mineral deposits, copper reserves of 12 million tons, gold reserves of 1756 tons, copper-gold symbiotic ore reserves of about 400 million tons, output ranked 11th and 13th in the world respectively. In addition, there are rich gold, chromium, nickel, bauxite, seabed natural gas and oil resources.

The reserves of Kutubu and Gebei oil fields are up to 400 million barrels. The South Highlands has 17 million barrels of oil reserves. Natural gas reserves 7 trillion cubic feet, predicted reserves 15 trillion cubic feet.

Forest resources are abundant, covering an area of 36 million hectares of tropical virgin forest, accounting for about 77% of the country's area, with a total forest stock of about 2.9 billion cubic meters and a recoverable stock of 500 million cubic meters. Especially amazing is that the video taken by Mick when he first went into the mountain to meet the aborigines was preserved, and then combined with interviews with local people, a documentary reflecting the contact process between highland aborigines and modern civilization was produced. The title is "First Contact." After the film was released in 1983, it shocked the world and won numerous awards. Such images were unprecedented and unprecedented. They were truly unique. The story follows: Mick grew up with Joe, a native son of the tribe, and later received a Western education in a white school, becoming a middleman between the two cultures. He made a fortune growing coffee in the highlands. His attempts to expand coffee plantations were documented in two documentaries, along with First Contact and called The Highland Trilogy.

The laws of history always tell us that a heterogeneous new civilization must bring a period or a certain degree of loss and pain to the recipient. But things look worse in Papua New Guinea, where what is happening can only be described as chaotic and bloody. No one can say exactly why. Frequent violence, endless tribal feuds, lack of resources, lack of medicine... the old is dying, the new is not established. People there say they don't see hope for this country.

And women in Papua New Guinea are generally subjected to brutal domestic violence. In traditional culture, women have always been regarded as the private property of men, can be beaten and scolded at will; and after marriage, they do not live together and sleep with their wives at night. Although the introduction of modern civilization allowed couples there to learn to live together, they never learned how to get along. Besides, the men idled and cared about appearance; the women farmed and supported the family and bore all the burden. Some anthropologists believe the custom originated in imitation of the bird of paradise, a local specialty. Male birds have beautiful feathers, female birds are not beautiful, responsible for laying eggs)

The vast majority of coffee in Papua New Guinea is organic coffee, not intentionally by the locals, but because of the inconvenient transportation and economic difficulties, the average coffee farmer is determined not to buy it, nor can he afford fertilizer. "Bird of Paradise" this coffee flavor lively, with bright acid and fruit aroma, unlike the general Asian beans dull, but a little African beans mean. Therefore, although not a famous show, but deft to please people like. It comes from the mountains on the island, and birds of paradise sing on the coffee trees. Before, my knowledge and imagination were limited to this.

The more he understood, the heavier he felt. A cup of bird of paradise actually carries a cultural tragedy. Joe the coffee farmer ended up bankrupt because tribal conflicts caused a lot of casualties, and the coffee was ripe for picking. As a result, the coffee rotted in the ground and Joe went to a civilized place.