Month September 2024

Breadfruit, More Than Just Food!

Breadfruit (Kapiak) has a potential to become Papua New Guinea’s main source of food and cash crop in the coastal and islands region in terms of food security and scarcity due to climate change impacts. The National Agricultural Research Institute(NARI)…

Farmers taught livestock breeding skills

A week-long training workshop on smallholder Livestock Breeding was conducted in the first week of June by NARI scientists. The workshop aimed to impart new technologies and methods for optimal livestock performance to farmers and senior Provincial Department of Agriculture…

Human Resource team carry out awareness on restructure

The Human Resource team, led by Human Resource Manager Jackson Pepeto, carried out an awareness program for the staff at the regional centres, starting with the Momase Regional Centre (MRC), about NARI’s restructure program. This awareness initiative began at the…

Information and data can drive agriculture forward

 Information and data can create opportunities to develop and drive the agriculture sector forward. Director General Dr Nelson Simbiken expressed this during the first of the Agriculture Minister’s Seminar Series to welcome participating stakeholders from the private and public sector…