Farmers and management of Tanna Coffee in Vanuatu have had a busy month harvesting coffee.
The harvest is anticipated to be the largest since Tropical Cyclone Pam hit the country in 2015 and farmers are happy about their achievement.
Tanna Coffee management says as they come closer to the end of the harvest season, it reminds them of how far they have reached since 2015.
“Every single day we are happy to be alive and moving forward, and every single coffee bean picked and processed counts towards the future of our farmers and their families, “said the management.
Through the injection of development funds from 'Genesis' Partners & assistance from the Farmer Support Association, Tanna Coffee now has two new nurseries, producing 350,000 seedlings for the next two years.
The development fund has also helped re-establish 45 pulperies lost during Tropical Cyclone Pam.
Pulperies are machines that separate coffee pulps from beans
Tanna Coffee has also employed an additional fifty casual workers who will benefit once the coffee trees begin to produce cherries.
Vanuatu lost more than 350,000 plants and TC Pam damaged over half the country’s coffee industry.
Photo: Facebook (Tanna Coffee)