The Permanent Secretary for Agriculture and Livestock, Jimmy Saelea says the potential for agriculture in the Western Province is huge. Mr Saelea made the statement in his address at the Mini Agriculture and World Food Day celebrations in Munda, last Thursday.
Promoting the production and consumption of local food crops is crucial to family units in rural areas, says the Acting Premier for Western Province Wayne Maepio. Mr Maepio made the statement to open the Mini Agriculture Show in Munda, Western Province, yesterday.
Family farming will continue to be important, regardless of external threats, says the Chair of this year’s World Food Day National Committee. Michael Ho’ota made the statement this morning during celebrations to mark World Food Day in Honiara today.
Permanent Secretary for Agriculture and Livestock has called for greater national attention to family farming, saying failing to address this results in a dependency syndrome. Jimmy Saelea made the statement this morning at the officially launch of the first ever Agriculture week in Honiara.
Permanent Secretary of the Agriculture Ministry says resilience for rural people to mitigate climate change extremes needs to be realised and supported. Jimmy Saelea made the comment today at the official opening of the Agriculture Week.
A first ever week-long event on Agriculture will be held in the capital, beginning tomorrow. World Food Day will also be celebrated during the Agriculture Week.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock has today launched the inaugural Agriculture Show and World Food Day 2014. The week-long program will begin on October 17 and was launched by the Permanent Secretary Jimmy Saelea.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MAL) has poured out assistance to farmers who lost their crops and livestock during the April flash floods. The Ministry of Agriculture says, it is eager to assist everyone whose livelihoods were damaged during the floods.
Banana trees in North Guadalcanal are reportedly producing less fruit and, farmers in the area say, they want the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock to assess the situation.
Solomon Islands students studying in various institutions in Apia Samoa must continually strive for academic excellence. A government delegation who visited USP’s Alafua Campus in Apia recently made this strong reminder.
Despite having a zero percent growth in the country’s Gross Domestic Product, GDP, the agriculture and fisheries sectors are doing well, says Finance and Treasury Minister Rick Hou. Minister Hou told Parliament before the Supplementary Appropriation Bill No.
Coconut farming families in and around Choiseul Bay will no longer incur high shipping freights and travel the rough seas for days to sell their copra in Honiara.
People around the Tenavatu Cattle breeding farm in North Guadalcanal have called on the Ministry of Agriculture Live Stock division to quickly construct a relocated stock yard to secure cows for sale.
A week long Biosecurity induction workshop has started in Honiara. The workshop is organised by the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MAL) for its staff on the new Biosecurity procedures and systems for Solomon Islands.
Former board member of Commodities and Exporting and Marketing Authority (CEMA) Pio Akwasitalo has called on the CEMA authority and the national government to use the reserve budget to protect local price for copra.
The National Agriculture Research Institute and its partner, the Ministry of Agriculture today harvested a plot of sweet potatoes planted for trial at Aruligo, West Guadalcanal. The harvest took place at Ghorabau, one of the three areas where the trial was undertaken.
Efforts are underway to improve the cocoa industry’s knowledge of how the international cocoa market works, and to raise awareness on ways to potentially improve export returns for Solomon Islands cocoa.
Copra producers in North Malaita say they discouraged that governments have done little to improve local copra prices in the last three decades. They say past and present governments have done little or nothing to improve the country’s copra industry and this is very discouraging.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock has registered support for the automatic weather station project. A total of four stations will be installed under the project.
Staff from business and government departments have participated in a training course on how to maintain and audit quality assurance systems that is required by overseas markets.
