Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea's coffee is grown mostly in smallholder gardens in the Eastern and Western Highlands and Simbu, where it supports a large share of the rural population. Plantations established in the colonial era still operate, and the country grades coffee by size, colour, shape, defects and cup into letter classes such as A, X and Y.

ArabicaRobusta / Conilon

Production 2026/27
800kbags48k t · USDA PSD
Exports 2026/27
750kbags94% of the harvest
Arabica share
94%
World rank
20of 400.4% of origin output
Area harvested 2024
48khaFAOSTAT
Altitude
not published

Production and exports

60 kg bags · USDA PSD market years
0500k1000k1500k201020122014201620182020202220242026Production800kExports750kDomestic use50k
0500k1000k1500k’10’20Production800kExports750kDomestic use50k

Market years 2010/11 to 2026/27; the last year is USDA's current estimate. Domestic use is PSD's domestic consumption line.

Area harvested, hectares · FAOSTAT

20k40k60k80k100k’10’15’20Area48k

FAOSTAT crops and livestock products, item green coffee (CC BY 4.0). Values flagged as estimates by FAO are included as published.

Where the coffee goes

Supply and use
USDA Foreign Agricultural Service, Production, Supply and Distribution (PSD), market years. Supply on the left equals use on the right.
Stocks carried in35k
Production800k
Imports0
Exports750k
Domestic use50k
Stocks carried out35k
Share of the harvest exported94%
Rank among producing origins by exports19 of 37

Where the exports go is not published here. Shipments by destination, including US imports from Papua New Guinea, come from USITC DataWeb and the Census trade API, which need credentials we do not hold yet.

Harvest

Harvest calendar for every origin
  1. Jan
  2. Feb
  3. Mar
  4. Apr
  5. May
  6. Jun
  7. Jul
  8. Aug
  9. Sep
  10. Oct
  11. Nov
  12. Dec

Main cropFly cropTypical US arrival

  • Whole country · main cropJun–Sep · US Nov–Dec

    Cafe Imports May-September (arrivals October-November); Mercanta June-September main with arrivals around December.

  • Whole country · fly cropJan–Feb · US May

    Cafe Imports January-February, Mercanta January-March; Mercanta puts fly-crop arrivals around May.

Growing regions

3 regions

Varieties, processing and grading

Main varieties

TypicaBourbonArushaBlue MountainMundo Novo

Common processing

Washed (wet, fully washed)

Export grading

Other national grade vocabularies (Jamaica, PNG, DR Congo, Ecuador, Yemen, Flores)

ICO certifying agent: Coffee Industry Corporation Ltd.

Character and protected names

Flavour tendencies

The sources used do not describe a typical cup for Papua New Guinea; this page does not invent one.

General tendencies from importer origin notes, not a promise about any lot. The claims behind them are listed with their sources at the foot of the page.

Geographical indications and protected names

None recorded for Papua New Guinea.