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West Papua to open export route to Pacific countries
The championed commodity is Wamena coffee, which is claimed to have a distinct flavor and high quality.
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Papua province officials stand next to a display of Papuan coffee products on April 15.
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He said he welcomed the central government initiative to push economic growth in the province’s agricultural sector. Enembe made the comment in response to a visit from the Agricultural Ministry’s head of agricultural produce quarantine body, Ali Jamil.
“Papua has to be the gateway to ASEAN and Pacific countries,” he said on Monday.
The governor said Pacific countries needed economic cooperation with Papua, but the province had yet to have adequate facilities for direct exports like infrastructure and permit and customs procedures. Export through air cargo was possible, but not via road or sea.
“The President has approved of the plan. But the Transportation Ministry has yet to give its approval. We have to push it to accelerate exports from Papua,” he said.
On his visit to Papua New Guinea, he said the country exported rice to Australia and Pacific countries at twice the price of rice produced in Merauke, Papua.
This year Papua has chiefly exported logs and rice. Logs were sent to China while 50 tons of rice were sent to Papua New Guinea. He expressed hope that the province could export more commodities.
