PAPUA NEW GUINEA: WORLD’s BEST COFFEE
Nature has endowed Papua New Guinea with an unparalleled natural environment, containing 10% of the planet’s biodiversity. There are wonderful tropical rainforests, extensive river systems, volcanoes, waterfalls, rugged highlands, pristine beaches and remarkable flora and fauna.
The World’s best conditions for growing coffee are found in the beautiful highlands of Papua New Guinea.
A perfect combination of factors make this possible:
1. The rich volcanic soils in one of the planet’s most biodiverse regions are farmed almost exclusively by indigenous communities using only natural fertilisers and no herbicides or pesticides.
2. The region sits close to the equator providing the consistent year-round climatic conditions ideal for coffee growing.
3. The farming lands of the Highlands sit above 1500m which means coffee is grown at moderate temperatures year round.
With the perfect beans, our challenge at Niugini Arabica has been to roast them in a way worthy of what nature has endowed us with.
The results are medals at the International Golden Bean Coffee Roasters Competition - one for the “single origin espresso” category and the other for the “milk latte” category; and the Royal Adelaide Coffee Show
buying organic supports farmers
Our coffee beans are single-sourced and organically grown in small village based family farming communities.
Fair Trade coffee comes from large plantations with low paid workers. Even with Fair Trade certification, workers are still paid very poorly.
In Papua New Guinea, 97% of the land is owned by indigenous village communities. This means that large multi-nationals with poorly paid workforces are almost non-existent.
Our farmers are self-employed indigenous micro-businesses, and by attaining organic certification they are able to receive a much higher price.
And of course, organic means that the coffee is grown in harmony with nature. There are no pesticides, herbicides, or chemical fertilisers to come in conflict with the pristine natural environment where 10% of the globe’s biodiversity is found.
Organic certified coffee sourced from smallholder growers is far and away the most ethical way to buy coffee beans.
THE LOWEST CARBON FOOTPRINT - BY FAR
Almost all beans roasted by Australian coffee roasters are sourced from the other end of the planet – Central America, South America or Africa.
Australia also imports a considerable amount of roasted coffee beans - predominantly from countries like Italy that, like Australia, import their beans from far away places.
Papua New Guinea is Australia’s closest neighbour.
Did you know that the distance between Australia’s closest island and the mainland of Papua New Guinea is just 4km?
The distance our beans need to travel on container ships is a small fraction of the distance for the beans Australians have grown accustomed to.
Should you be buying coffee from Ethiopia 11,000 km away, Costa Rica 16,000 km away, or from our indigenous neighbours just 4 km away?