First Batch of 49 Students Graduate from Coffee Academy (27 January 2009)

Forty-nine students completed a three-year course that covers agriculture, agribusiness management, and coffee production offered by the East Timor Coffee Academy. On January 23, top officials of the Southern Cross University in Australia, Bogor Agricultural Institute and Brawijaya University in Indonesia, institutions which helped develop the curriculum, joined the Minister of Agriculture in addressing the graduates. Thirty-five of the graduates are already working for the Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperativa Café Timor, while the top six graduates have been offered slots for further studies by the Indonesian universities. The East Timor Coffee Academy was established in 2003 through USAID’s Timor Economic Rehabilitation and Development Project, and was accredited by the Ministry of Education in 2008.

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