PRESS RELEASE THE Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock has secured a 37.5 hectare of land at Tenaru for the establishment of the National Agriculture Project known as the “Tenaru Field Experimental Station”. The new land bought from the Catholic Church…
MELBOURNE-BASED Vinay Reddy, Managing Director of Vinay’s Food, has been buying cassava from Varivao Holdings Ltd since 2019 and has so far received seven containers of yellow cassava from Solomon Islands. And he wants more. So much so that when…
BY BEN BILUAGizo THE Constituency Development Officer (CDO) of South Vella has described the project implementation approach of Peoples Republic of China as a “game changer” that would lead to tangible development in rural communities. Lemech Tovavaki made the statement…
BY SAMIE WAIKORI AUKI THE US-funded Winrock SCALE-NRM programme in Malaita province will begin its awareness to communities next week. First up is East Malaita. A one and half week awareness programme has been set and a team from Winrock…
BY ALFRED PAGEPITU & IRWIN ANGIKI The US Embassy in PNG has assured that the SCALE Project is continuing. This follows reports that SCALE has been “shelved” by the new government of US, under President Joe Biden. The Port Moresby-based…
BY CHARLES KADAMANA A community based leading exporter Varivao Holdings Limited is set to export 14.480Metric tons of frozen yellow cassava worth more than SBD $110,000 to Melbourne Australia. The consignment of yellow cassava has been scheduled to be shipped…
MORE than 80 men and women of the Southern Mount Maetabe catchment area (Babatana rainforest catchment area) in Choiseul Province have successfully attended the Protected Areas management and enforcement training last week. The participants involved included members of the Protected…
THE Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock through the Integrated Forest Management Project (IFMP) of which the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations is the implementing agency has successfully established its Integrated Land Management Committee (ILMC). The committee’s…
SOLOMON Islands is now one of the top 3 countries, after Vanuatu and Tonga, on the number of workers arriving in Australia since the restart of the Seasonal Workers Programme (SWP) and the Pacific Labour Scheme (PLS) late last year.…
UP to 50 women and girls took part in a three-day “Backyard Gardening” training delivered by Kastom Gaden Association (KGA) at their Burns Creek base last week. Participants were mentors and members of the Young Women Christian Association (YWCA) Solomon…
