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A two-day planning workshop for all six NARI Regional Centres ended on a high note on Friday February 28. The workshop organised and facilitated by headquarters was held at the Alan Quartermain Multi Purpose Hall from Thursday 27th to Friday…
The Climate Smart Agriculture project’s main objective is to find meaningful ways to help farmers improve agricultural production and increase their resilience in light of the negative effectives of climate change. The University of Goroka’s Centre for Social and Creative…
The current medical insurance cover for the staff and management of NARI has been revised to make it more accessible and affordable. This was announced on December 17 during the Christmas Party at the Allan Quartermain Hall by the Director General Dr.Nelson Simbiken. Currently, staff are required to pay medical expenses in full then get an 80% reimbursement from the insurance company. This is an added burden to staff, who could not afford private medical services. The revised insurance cover will make it more accessible as NARI will do an upfront payment to the medical provider where staf can access medical services. When making the announcement, Dr Simbiken stressed that the employees must be in good health to produce results at the workplace. “Our health is very important. Our staff must be taken care of to serve the organisation and this is the management’s Christmas gift to you” said Dr. Simbiken. Meanwhile NARI staff at Headquarter and MRC Bubia shared Christmas dinner with the NARI…
The Climate Smart Agriculture project is fully supported by ACIAR with the main objective, of finding meaningful ways to enable vulnerable communities become resilient and improves agricultural production from negative effect of climate change. In 2015, a devastating flood washed…
The 2024 Pacific SID forum was organised by the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the UNDP with the Government of Fiji to support Pacific countries’ food system transformation. This year’s theme is ‘Transforming Agrifood Systems for our Blue Pacific Continent…
The National Agricultural Research Institute(NARI) pays tribute to one of its former staff Late Jimmy Maro who was instrumental in the establishment of the Geographic Information System currently used by NARI. Late Maro was one of the first to join…
NARI bid farewell to three (3) of its staff on December 17 during the Staff Christmas Party at the Allan Quatermain Hall. Dr Michael Dom dedicated 22 years of outstanding service in research and project management. Mr Clifton Gwabu served as an economic analyst…
In a recent meeting of agriculture commodity heads on the 3rd October 2024, brokered by the Minister for Agriculture and Department of Agriculture Secretary, the NARS Leaders discussed and expressed their concerns about the declining research capacity and capabilities to…
A delegation from the Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences (JAAS) in the People’s Republic of China, led by the Academy President, Mr Yi Zhongyi, visited NARI headquarters and its Momase Regional Centre at Bubia, Lae, Morobe Province on Sunday 3rd of November. The visit was a followup to a Memorandum Of…
The National Agricultural Research Institute (NARI) was awarded the First Prize in the Government and Semi-Government Sector at the 61st Morobe Agricultural Show last weekend. NARI exhibited food crops (taro, rice, sweetpotato) and livestock (village chickens, goat, sheep, ducks, fish)…
