By MALUM NALU BACK in 1984, while doing Grade 11 at Aiyura National High School in the Eastern Highlands, my class did a weekend trek from Aiyura to Yonki. On a cold, wet, Saturday night, we overnighted at Arau Coffee Plantation run by a legendary Australian woman Muriel McGowan Larner. Larner, the mother of one […]
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This article was first published in 2012 By MALUM NALU I first met legendary Highlands politician and businessman, Sir Sinake Giregire – who passed away in January 2012 – one fine morning in July 2000. That beautiful Goroka morning, while I was working with the Coffee Industry Corporation in Goroka, I drove up to his
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This story was first published in 2012 By MALUM NALU The Coffee Industry Corporation board room in Goroka, Eastern Highlands, is named the Lloyd Hurrell Board Room. Who was Lloyd Hurrell and what was his contribution to Papua New Guinea’s coffee industry? Lloyd Hurrell was a remarkable man, a pioneer coffee grower in Wau and
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APRIL 14 2022 Many legendary Australian kiaps (patrol officers) helped develop Papua New Guinea into what it is today. Such a man was Ian Downs, who died on Tuesday August 24, 2004, in the Gold Coast, aged 89, one of the greatest and most-legendary men who walked this country. Downs is remembered as the principal
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APRIL 14 2022 This Easter, for the first time ever, the people of remote Maramuni in Enga will be able to travel to and from provincial capital Wabag for their goods and services. It is something that the people of this forgotten part of Papua New Guinea have not been able to do since Independence
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APRIL 7 2022 Agriculture, forestry, and fisheries expanded by an estimated 3.7% in 2021, according to the Asian Development Bank’s Asian Development Outlook (ADO) 2022 released on April 6, 2022. The ADO said this largely reflected recovery from a low base in 2020, when output was hampered by lockdowns and trade bottlenecks. “Increased production of
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The EU-STREIT PNG continues to provide technical support to vanilla farmers, even in hard-to-reach areas, assisting them to return and maintain high-quality vanilla production as a lucrative and cash-earning commodity for rural families in the Sepik Region. Wewak, Papua New Guinea, March 23 2022 – Despite facing geographical challenges like lack of road access, the Food
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The agriculture sector shows signs of weathering the pandemic better than other sectors largely due to additional Government support to SMEs, according to the World Bank’s Papua New Guinea Economic Update for February 2022. The report highlights vanilla as the star achiever for PNG which it says is poised to become the world’s second largest
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MARCH 17 2022 Agriculture and Livestock Minister Hon. John Simon says there is a lot in terms of agriculture that Papua New Guinea can learn from Bangladesh. He said this after returning from the 36th Asia Pacific Regional Conference (APRC) of Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in Dhaka, Bangladesh.Minister Simon, who visited rice fields in
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March 16 2022 Oil Palm Industry Corporation (OPIC) Acting General-Secretary Kepson Pupita says the “long-overdue” review of the OPIC Act to bring about changes in the billion-kina industry is now is place. He said this in Kimbe today (Wednesday March 16) after a consultation meeting with stakeholders to discuss the revised OPIC Act before it
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