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Mr. Yogiyo provides CFPC with the crucial coffee industry knowledge and presence in Papua New Guinea (PNG). He oversees all coffee exported from PNG to ensure that the CFPC’s customers receive the best grade and highest quality whole green bean coffee.
Mr. Yogiyo has 28 years of solid and varied coffee industry experience with the Coffee Industry Corporation of PNG. This includes positions as Coffee Agronomist (1976), Director of Coffee Research, and the current position of General Manager of Extension Services Division. As the General Manager he was tasked to optimize the coffee export revenue benefits for the coffee growers, including the Plantation Blockholders and Smallholders. In 2003, the Minister of Agriculture appointed Mr. Yogiyo to serve in the Coffee Policy Advisory Committee which is tasked to advise on policy reforms within the PNG coffee industry. Mr. Yogiyo holds a Bachelor of Agriculture degree and has completed post-graduate studies in Management and Agriculture in Australia, Thailand and Western Samoa. He has received training under Pearson Fellowship with Agriculture Canada at the Morden Agriculture Research Station, Manitoba, Canada. | 