MEMBER of Parliament for North West Guadalcanal, Bodo Dettke has defended his call for all local noni farmers in the provinces to discontinue work on noni farming due to in availability of processing facilities in the provinces. This is after…
BY SAMIE WAIKORI AUKI THE Public Accounts Committee (PAC) under the Malaita Provincial Assembly held an information sharing session with Winrock SCALE-NRM Deputy Chief of Party, Dr Morgan Wairiu last week in Auki. PAC chairman, and MPA for Ward three,…
BY SAMIE WAIKORI AUKI MALAITA Provincial Youth Council (MPYC) has yet again donated seven 20kg bags of kava stalks this time to Orea youth group last week in Auki. The support is part of Malaita Youth’s Economic Stimulus Package (ESP)…
MAYOR WELCOMES INVESTIGATION ON THE TRANSFER OF HCC LAND. THE Honiara City Mayor has welcomed investigations into the sell of the Honiara City Council owned land used by the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock at Ranadi, east of Honiara. The…
BY BEN BILUA CHAIRMAN of the North West Guadalcanal Subsistence Farmers Association (NWGSFA), Bernard Garo has rubbished reports of Rhinoceros beetle eating noni fruits, describing it to be unfounded and misleading. He made the statement in response to a report…
By EDDIE OSIFELO MINISTRY of Agriculture and Livestock has invested in agriculture this year with the aim of developing it into a new industry. Speaking at the sine die motion in Parliament on Tuesday, Minister Senley Levi Filualea said there…
BY SAMIE WAIKORI AUKI THE message of kava continues to spread and it becomes one of the much talked about commercial root crops in the province. And it’s not only just a mere message, but rather, farmers investing in the…
Temotu government tackles rhinoceros beetle before it spreads further in province A similar story everywhere, not only in the country but worldwide – many once-prioritised problems are overshadowed and left to fester by covid-19 and are now giving cause for…
16th October is the World Food Day. An international day celebrated yearly around the world in honor of the date of the founding of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations in 1945. The celebration today also…
