NARI takes out top award at Morobe Agricultural Show

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)…

Final ITPGR report highlights key strategies

The sweetpotato conservation and utilization project of the National Agricultural Research Institute (NARI) has ended with the release of a concluding report in September. Among other things, the report highlighted innovative strategies that were employed to implement the project from…

International agency supports sweetpotato conservation

Project team displaying new sweetpotato breeding lines.

The National Agricultural Research Institute (NARI) recently shipped a first batch of duplicated (back-up) true seeds of Papua New Guinea’s (PNG) sweetpotato varieties to Norway to be preserved at the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. NARI accomplished this milestone on 30…

Kenyan delegation return visit to PNG, Fiji and Vanuatu

The National Agriculture Research Institute (NARI) recently co-hosted an international knowledge exchange visit by researchers and entrepreneurs from Kenya to investigate the potential of developing insect-based technology for feed production and organic waste management in Papua New Guinea. The delegation…

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…