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Date Posted: 17:34:56 02/17/00 Thu
Author: Anonymous
Subject: Re: http://anon.free.anonymizer.com/Re: Starbucks...more food for thought
In reply to: 's message, "http://anon.free.anonymizer.com/Re: Starbucks...more food for thought" on 17:14:08 02/17/00 Thu

I am not the one who pissed in my cheerios this morning, but I think my cat might have. I agree with what you are saying and perhaps I did not do a good job of explaining what I was trying to say. So I will try again. PNG is the perfect place to do something like Starbucks has done. Starbucks does not have a corner on the world market for coffee. In fact I think I read there was a shortage not long ago. What I was trying to say was......and I am not bashing PNG, I am making an observation. In order for PNG to do something like starbucks in Guatemala, and country and it's people have to be prepared to produce the product and to supply any other resources, ie. laborers or what ever to make this investment work. Do you remember a day or two ago I wrote the post about my trials and tribulations in trying to get a large hill top area irrigated but the people wouldn't take care of the equipment? Guess what that irrigation was for? 300 hectors was for new coffee trees, the rest for other food crops. Now here is the deal. If you are going to attract foreign investment in anything, coffee or for all I care bettel nuts, you have to show desire, ability and infastructure and the courage to stick with it and meet the goals. My question is now and has been all along, how do we get the people of PNG to look beyond today and see a brighter tomorrow? How can we show them that if they plant these trees and start growing coffee until it comes out of their ears we could go to some coffee gru in asia or the US and say, "HEY!! look what we have here? The finest coffeee in all the world and we can supply all you want. That is exactly what they did in Guatemala. In fact I read something about this in the Wall Street Journal a year or so ago and there was a lot of competition from several South American countries for this business. Guatemala won.

Please don't get mad at me...I am just a stupid America who don't always speek good.... I am on your side in this quest

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