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 staff and surrounding community had opportunity to learn basic facts on HIV and AIDS. To commemorate World AIDS Day 2024, the Publication Team organised a 2 hour Mini Awareness to disseminate information on HIV and AIDS, Family Violence, Youths…
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…
The NARI Human Resource team organised an AFL sports clinic for the staff children as part of promoting sports discipline and keeping them out of trouble. This sports clinic was organised with Niukick, a sports organisation led by Ms Josephine…
NARI Staff including Director General Dr Nelson Simbiken visited Anton Beko and his family to present cash and in kind contribution on the passing of his late son Evans Beko on November 12. Anton Beko thanked staff saying their time…
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)…
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…
