Looking into making coffee

Earthlings Coffee Workshop managing director Kenny Lee (right) showing Uggah a sample of coffee beans, while assistant ministers for agriculture Dr Abdul Rahman Ismail (left) and native land development Datuk Roland Sagah (second from left) look on.

KUCHING: Sarawak is looking into the potential of coffee to be developed as a major product, said Deputy Chief Minister Datuk Amar Douglas Uggah.

He said coffee planting had been recorded in the state’s history as early as 1867 during the Brooke era, while in more recent times the Agriculture Department had encouraged farmers to plant coffee.