By RODRICK DESURI
Auki
Goshen Enterprise, the only taro dealer and exporter in the country, aims to send one shipment of its taro products to Australia this year.
This will be a major step forward for the business, as it recovered after covid-19.
In an interview with Island Sun yesterday, Managing Director of Goshen Enterprise, Levite Luciano Maesimae said he is planning to improve productivity and do at least one shipment this year.
To kick-start the process, he encourages taro farmers to supply more taros to his packhouse in Adaliua, near Auki, Malaita Province.
He said an increased supply can improve its domestic distribution, like the Bulk-shop in Honiara.
“I want to encourage my taro farmers to supply more taros to our taro packhouse at Adaliua, so that we can focus on domestic distributions.
“We must try our best to do any shipment this year and achieve our goal,” he said.
Maesimae said they can taro from Ata’a in the Baegu Asifola constituency, from Wairaha in the West Are’are, and also in East Are’are.
He said most of his farmers are from the highlands and so they have to carry their supply of taro on their shoulders to reach road access.
Hence, he said one challenge his farmers face is transporting the crop to the packhouse.
To address such challenges, he suggests improvement in logistics and creating more incentives to support the farmers.
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