This Arabica coffee manual for Myanmar is an activity under a FAO Technical Cooperation Program coffee project for Myanmar and has been prepared as a support base for training trainers and staff of the Coffee Research Information Extension and Training Centre (CRIETC) of Myanmar Farm Enterprises (MFE) of Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation at Pyin Oo Lwin. The manual has been compiled by Ted Winston, Jacques Op de Laak, Tony Marsh and Herbert Lempke (International Consultants), Keith Chapman (Industrial Crops Officer, FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific) in collaboration with Thaung Nyunt (MFE and FAO National Project Director) and Okkar Aung (Director) and the staff of CRIETC. The manual provides key information through consistent technical messages essential for high quality coffee production, processing and marketing and is intended to be a primary source of practical knowledge on Good Agricultural Practices (GAP). It is hoped that farmers, managers of coffee plantations and investors in the Arabica coffee industry will benefit greatly from this information. FAO sincerely thanks the authors and CRIETC for their dedication to the preparation of this manual.
Keith Chapman
Industrial Crops Officer
FAO Regional
Office for Asia and the Pacific
Bangkok, Thailand
