By Loretta B Manele
Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MAL) is working on introducing dried fruit snacks to the menu for Solomon Airlines.
Dr Samson Viulu, permanent secretary of the ministry spoke briefly on this during a recent interview.
He said they are in discussions with Solomon Airlines to introduce dried fruit snacks in their flights and the chairman of the Solomon Airlines board really agrees with the idea.
“We want to introduce dried mango fruit, dried pineapple fruit and dried papaya fruit”
He explained that they are currently using some machines to find the best possible process at the most affordable cost.
“So, we want to find the best low-cost approach to produce these three dried fruit snacks and once we come up with the best approach, we will introduce it to the private sector then the private sector will commercially produce it and sell it to Solomon Airlines”
He mentioned that this is the first step they expect to take next year amidst having already worked on processes such as trials in their labs and so on.
Viulu said the point is we don’t have any pride in those airlines because none of our local food are sold in these planes and the meals served are bought from overseas.
