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…
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…
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 (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)…
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…
The National Agricultural Research Institute is spearheading a scientific research in partnership with Fiji Ministry of Agriculture and the Vanuatu Agricultural Research Centre to investigate the potential of developing the Black Soldier Fly (BSF) as part of a regional project…
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…
