Coffee farmers in the North East highlands of Guadalcanal have called on the Sogavare-led Government to address current biosecurity issues holding up exporting coffee beans from Solomon Islands.
The Magistrate Court will sentence a Taiwanese man convicted of attempting to export millions of dollars worth of tubi overseas, next week. Hsieh Fu after a one day trial, was found guilty and convicted on one count of attempted export of prohibited goods and evasion of prohibited export of goods.
Copra continues to be one of the country’s major agriculture exports. Chief Produce inspector for CEMA Patterson Siliota says copra is still one of the major agriculture despite a drop in production the past few years.
Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare has said the country needs to go back to the basics and establish whether its key basic activities are functioning to the level required to move the economy forward. Speaking to local journalists in a Budget Reporting workshop held in Honiara over the weekend, Mr.
The recently opened National Cocoa Quality Testing Laboratory will enable exporters for the first time to test their beans and receive accreditation for quality.
Solomon Islands could have benefited more from its tuna resources if it had a more transparent and accountable fisheries management system. The World Bank Country Director for Timor-Leste, Papua New Guinea, and the Pacific, Franz Drees-Gross made the statement in an exclusive interview with SIBC…
The Minister of Fisheries, Honourable John Maneniaru has stood by his decision to approve the issuance of export license to Ontong Java Development Company.
Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare has confirmed he gave instructions to issue a beche-de-mer export license to Dr Reginald Apia of the Ontong Java Development Company Limited.
The Solomon Islands Ports Authority (SIPA) Board has engaged an international Business Dynamic Consultancy group from Singapore to work on its reform programs.
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.
The Guadalcanal Plains Palm Oil Limited plans to expand its current land lease Eastwards within the Guadalcanal Plains. SIBC’s North Guadalcanal stringer Dudley Gani reports, the company currently holds leases to six thousand hectares, and wants to expand thirteen thousand hectares towards…
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.
