· Low price of coffee · Capacity building · Community development · Coffee marketing · Sustainability standard
international/national · Quality awareness · Certification · Globalisation · What steps to enter world markets in this
era of free trade? · Unpreparedness of industry for
competition · No coffee export/import policies · Local security · Coconuts and candlenuts, is there a
market? · Imports and lack of local opportunity · Free trade · Currency.
PRIORITY
ISSUES
|
STRATEGIES |
|
COMPETITION
AND INDUSTRY |
·
Increase
exports by raising the quality of products in the country and decrease
imports ·
Form an
association to open networks with competitors ·
Create
small scale national and local industries in order to compete. |
|
COMMUNITY
DEVELOPMENT & EDUCATION |
·
Active
participation of the community ·
Information ·
Education
system |
|
COFFEE,
SANDLEWOOD & COCONUTS |
·
Transitional
administration to immediately end the coffee buying monopoly of one company in East Timor ·
Promote
Timorese coffee as a commodity to the world market place ·
Transitional
administration to provide opportunities for foreign investment in the
candlewood and coconut industries |
|
TRADE |
·
Create an
East Timor Trade representative body. ·
Must
create itsown currency. ·
Countries
exporting to East Timor must observe human, labour, environmental and civil
rights. ·
Get the
rupiah out of East Timor. |