Sangara, Papua New Guinea

The Sangara also constitute a tribe in the area. They are known for setting up markets along the road to Buna Bay to Yodda Goldfield and trading taro with tobacco and glass bottles.^[4]

Sangara is a notable area of coffee production, lying in the foothills.^[5] 18 commercial coffee plantations were established in 1926, paving the way for commercial production from 1928.^[6] Louis Austen, a retired sea-captain, once managed a government coffee plantation near Sangara.^[1] Historically there were also major rubber plantations in the area; the rubber was transported to the port at Buna Bay and then shipped overseas.^[7][8] Sangara was also an important location for the sugar industry in the country. In 1928 a group of Cairns-based investors founded the Sangara Sugar Estates, Ltd., and proposed the payment of capital worth £500,000 to promote sugar production in Papua New Guinea.^[9] The company was reported to have applied for some 8100 hectares of land.^[6] The sugar industry in Sangara though was reportedly not as successful as the rubber industry and some of the plantations were later converted to produce rubber.^[10]

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