Editorial 2 World Food Day 2016: FAO Director General calls for actions to promote reliance in Agriculture 2 DAL IT officer attends Training on ICT Applications in Agriculture in Taiwan 3 Mr Vele Kagena—Going finish 4 CIC Announces K32.2m for coffee Rehabilitation under PPAP 5 DAL in Pictures 6 Agricultural statistics planning & Designing on Food Security Policy Planning 7 Women coffee farmer in East New Britain sets example 8 DAL Regional office ready to help farmers 9 New projects aims to promote small farmers 9 DAL Officer in secondment in N Zealand 11 Condolence Message—Doreka Young 12 INSIDE THIS ISSUE: Department of Agriculture and Livestock, Central Government Office (CGO), Level 2B. Kumul Avenue, WAIGANI. The Department of Agriculture and Livestock (DAL) in collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and other stakeholders are in the process of finalizing the Agriculture Recovery Plan 2016-2017 in relation to the EL Nino drought response. The main objectives of the Recovery Plan are to support farming communities in the drought affected areas and strengthen national capacity to generate seeds and planting material. It is expected that the seeds and planting materials can be multiplied, packaged, stored and distributed along with livestock and farming tools. Farmers will also be assisted with training on drought adaptation, prepared- ness and mitigation, food preservation and water conservation techniques. DAL and FAO have been working closely with the National Agriculture Re- search Institute (NARI) and Fresh Produce Development Agency (FPDA) to draft the document, as well as with other PNG Food Security Cluster stakeholders, in- cluding provincial administrations, provincial agriculture offices, non- government organizations, Faith-based organizations and international partners. DAL and FAO has held consultation workshops in various regions to intro- duce the Recovery Plan to government stakeholders and to identify how the plan can be implemented using the current structures and staffing of DAL, NARI and FPDA, as well as collaborating with NGOs, Faith-based organizations and civil society. DAL AND FAO TAKE LEAD IN PREPARING AGRICULTURE RECOVERY PLAN
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Editorial 2 World Food Day 2016: FAO Director General calls for actions to promote reliance in Agriculture 2 DAL IT officer attends Training on ICT Applications in Agriculture in Taiwan 3 Mr Vele Kagena—Going finish 4 CIC Announces K32.2m for coffee Rehabilitation under PPAP 5 DAL in Pictures 6 Agricultural statistics planning & Designing on Food Security Policy Planning 7 Women coffee farmer in East New Britain sets example 8 DAL Regional office ready to help farmers 9 New projects aims to promote small farmers 9 DAL Officer in secondment in N Zealand 11 Condolence Message—Doreka Young 12
INSIDE THIS ISSUE:
Department of Agriculture and Livestock, Central Government Office (CGO), Level 2B. Kumul Avenue, WAIGANI.
The Department of Agriculture and Livestock (DAL) in collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and other stakeholders are in the process of finalizing the Agriculture Recovery Plan 2016-2017 in relation to the EL Nino drought response.
The main objectives of the Recovery Plan are to support farming communities in the drought affected areas and strengthen national capacity to generate seeds and planting material. It is expected that the seeds and planting materials can be multiplied, packaged, stored and distributed along with livestock and farming tools. Farmers will also be assisted with training on drought adaptation, prepared-ness and mitigation, food preservation and water conservation techniques.
DAL and FAO have been working closely with the National Agriculture Re-search Institute (NARI) and Fresh Produce Development Agency (FPDA) to draft the document, as well as with other PNG Food Security Cluster stakeholders, in-cluding provincial administrations, provincial agriculture offices, non-government organizations, Faith-based organizations and international partners.
DAL and FAO has held consultation workshops in various regions to intro-duce the Recovery Plan to government stakeholders and to identify how the plan can be implemented using the current structures and staffing of DAL, NARI and FPDA, as well as collaborating with NGOs, Faith-based organizations and civil society.
DAL AND FAO TAKE LEAD IN PREPARING AGRICULTURE RECOVERY PLAN
World Food Day 2016: FAO Direc-tor-General calls for actions to promote resilience in agriculture
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Several agriculture stations under DAL, NARI and FPDA in Morobe, Enga, Eastern Highlands, Western Highlands and Central Provinces are to be considered as resource centres for the upcoming multiplication processes.
This year’s World Food Day theme locally and at the global level is: “Climate is changing. Food and agriculture must too”.
The celebration marks 71st Anni-versary of the founding of Food and Agriculture Organization of the Unit-ed Nations (FAO) in 1945.
Below is the message of the Director General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, José Graziano da Silva on the occasion of the World Food day 2016.
This year, World Food Day is devoted to analyzing how food and agriculture should evolve in order to face the impacts of climate change.
Erratic weather patterns and the increase of pest and disease out-breaks are affecting agricultural productivity and therefore under-mining global food security.
As usual, the poorest and most hungry people suffer the most. 80 percent of them live in rural areas.
They earn their living and feed their families from the very sector that bears the brunt of the impacts.
Climate change is already undermining our efforts to end hunger and all other forms of malnutrition by 2030.
Nearly 800 million people remain food insecure nowadays.
Almost 160 million children under the age of five are stunted.
There is growing international recognition that the agricultural sectors can play a transformative role in addressing the impacts of climate change.
World Food Day 2016 is an opportunity to identify how best to respond to these challenges.
Actions to promote resilience in agriculture cut across the usual distinction between adaptation and mitigation.
In fact, as we promote adaptation, we also mitigate the effects of climate change.
In the COP 21 last December in Paris, most countries included agriculture in their Nationally Determined Contributions.
In November, these countries will gather for COP 22 in Morocco to put these pledges into motion.
By working together, we can seize the transformative potential of the agricultural sectors.
The climate is changing, food and agriculture must change too.
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plication of 3S (GPS/GIS/RS) techniques of detec-tion survey and control in agriculture and applica-tion of enterprise resource planning (ERP) in agri-culture.
Overall, the workshop broadened knowledge in ICT Applications that is currently been used by oth-er countries and which can be used in PNG to im-prove farming techniques and also collectively col-lect data which can be stored and used in future for improvements and updates of databases and also to have updated ICT infrastructures in places where needed. The tools and Applications of ICT offer promising opportunities to facilitate this and overall national development. This will entail that the use of ICT will be given more prominence in helping the department to achieve its objectives in improving the performance of the agriculture agencies to deliv-er services. However, the Department is also seek-ing and working in collaborative partnership with international agencies to develop and make the use of ICT more effectively and efficiently.
The Department of Agriculture and Livestock IT officer, Mr Timothy Timothy, attended a two weeks workshop on ICT Applications in Agricul-ture in Taiwan from June 22 to July 5, 2016. The workshop was organized and funded by Taiwan International Cooperation Development Fund (ICDF) and attended by representatives from 23 countries: Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, Vietnam, Belize, Guatemala, Russia, India, Lib-ya, Nigeria, Sao Tome e Principe, Mauritius, Brazil, Paraguay, Panama, Nicaragua, Hungary, Honduras, Argentina, Ukraine, Estonia and St Lucia.
The main objective of the workshop was to study the methods of identifying and tracing of agricultur-al produce from harvest to market, prediction and information for crop production, pest management and installation and application for agricultural in-formation and dissemination system.
The workshop primarily focused on ICT applica-tions in agriculture and associated challenges faced by both the developed and the developing countries. ICT applications and challengers covered include; prediction and information for crop production, ag-ricultural ICT Applications in pest management, RFID technology application in traceable agricultur-al products (TAP), installation and application for agricultural information dissemination system, ap-
DAL IT Officer attends Training on ICT Applica-tions in Agriculture in Taiwan
Group of participants presented best accomplishment report Participants at Ling Cheng technology building for workshop
Timothy Timothy far left, and Workshop participants in Taiwan
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A long-serving Depart-ment of Agriculture and Livestock officer who has worked for over 40 years, Mr Vele Kagena, has retired from the public service.
Mr Kagena, 60, from Gavuone village, Abau district in Central Prov-
ince, was until recently the Chairman of the PNG Rubber Board. An agriculturist by profession, he has served with DAL as Acting Secretary, Deputy Secretary for Corporate Services, Director of South-ern Region, Chief Education Officer, Agricultural College Principal and Lecturer at Popondetta, Sepik and Vudal Agriculture Colleges.
The Vudal Agricultural College (now PNG Uni-versity of Natural Resources) pioneer student and graduate in Diploma in Tropical Agriculture, went on to complete a Master’s Degree in Business Ad-ministration, Divine Word University, Master’s De-gree in Educational Administration with Honors from University of New England in Australia, Post Graduate Diploma in Agriculture Extension from Reading University, England, Diploma in Rural So-cial Leadership, Xavier University Philippines and Certificate in Teaching, UNDP sponsorship pro-gram.
Mr Kagena, who commenced his career as an agricultural extension officer (Didiman) and worked in Madang, Central, East Sepik, East New Britain and Oro provinces, from 1978 to 1992, was awarded the Member for Logohu (ML) in 2006 for recogni-tion of services in the public service, particularly in agriculture extension and education in PNG. He was also awarded a certificate for his services to Nation-al Agriculture Quarantine and Inspection Authority (NAQIA).
As Director for Southern Region from 2000-2005, he was instrumental in initiating the feasibil-ity studies for the Bulldog oil palm project along the borders of Morobe and Gulf as well as the Amazon Bay oil palm project in Abau district. He was also chairman of the inter-governmental Committee for National Cassava Project in Rigo district. He repre-sented DAL on commodity boards namely, NAQIA, Oil Palm Industry Corporation, Fresh Produce De-velopment Agency, Coffee Industry Corporation, NARI, LDC and Cocoa Board.
Mr Kagena also played a key role in the develop-
ment of the National Agriculture Development Plan (NADP) and other sector policies. He has served on the Board of Sirinumu Development Company, and
was Team Leader for the review of the OPIC Board Act in 2014. He became Chairman of the PNG Rub-ber Board in 2015 for a three-year term.
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A World Bank and International Fund for Agri-culture Development (IFAD) mission has been in the country for the eleventh implementation sup-port mission of the PNG Productive Partnerships in Agriculture Project (PPAP).
The objective of the mission, from the 14th to 25th November, was to review the overall imple-mentation progress of the PPAP since the last mis-sion in May this year.
Members of the mission from the World Bank and IFAD travelled to the PPAP cocoa and coffee components in the Autonomous Region of Bougain-ville, East New Britain, Western Highlands and Ji-waka provinces.
Also accompanying the mission were senior offi-cials from the PPAP project coordination unit, De-partment of Agriculture and Livestock, Department
World Bank and IFAD mission visit PNG to assess coffee and cocoa project
of National Planning and Moni-toring, and Department of Treasury.
The mission travelled to several of the project locations to meet with the implementation agencies
Mr. Vele Kagena
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Mission members inspecting a
cocoa nursery in ENB.
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fident of the CIC-PPAP Project Management Unit based in Goroka with a sub office based at CIC Panga station in Ji-waka to deliver the results in partnership with Lead Partners as demonstrated in call 1 to 2 since com-mence of project in 2011. The Lead Partners com-prise coffee processors, exporters, NGOs, Commu-nity-based organizations, and Faith-based organisa-tions namely the Anglican Church of PNG (Aipo Rongo Diocese) and Catholic Church (Wabag Dio-cese).
“It’s a loan project and is appropriate that we ex-tend the benefits to as many farmers as possible.
“The CIC-PPAP board is confident with our effort to deliver as per the public-private partnership ar-rangement, a template we’re developing in the pro-cess which has received praise from many sectors, the Department and Ministry of Agriculture & Live-stock and PNG Government.”
Mr Hombunaka emphasis the partners will fol-low the World Bank process and procedures on how to plan, appropriate and account for the funds allo-cated under the project.
“In terms of governance the PPAP model is be-ing recognized as being of high standard and as long as we work together we can improve the wellbeing of our farmers. This is the expected outcome of this project.”
The signing of respective contracts with Lead Partners will be taking place in the respective prov-inces.
“Issues of governance is important for this pro-ject. This is to ensure Lead Partners are accountable and we do it right,” says Mr Hombunaka.
CIC announces K32.2m for coffee rehabilitation under PPAP
“Yumi lukautim Kofi na Kofi bai lukautim Yumi”
THE Coffee Industry Corporation (CIC) will en-gage over 15,000 more households in coffee rehabilitation work following a recent an-nouncement of 19 new partnership agree-ments totalling K32.2 million.
The agreements under call 4 proposals will see current and new private sector firms or organizations partner coffee component of Pro-ductive Partnerships in Agriculture Project (PPAP) to help farmers improve their coffee gar-dens with appropriate practices and training.
The project is aimed at improving coffee yield and quality which has declined over the years. At the farmers’ level, it means more income to improve their wellbeing.
The 19 new partnerships will cover additional 15,606 households totalling 7,803 hectares.
Chief Executive Officer of CIC Charles Dambui this week signed the 19 partnership agreements follow-ing approval of final call 4 submissions by PPAP board or Industry Coordination Committee in its meeting in Goroka on October 4, 2016.
“The PPAP is producing some remarkable results in a very short and I’m excited to see its extension to help our rural farmers who rely heavily on coffee trees to survive. This is the core objective of our PPAP program,” says Mr Dambui.
PPAP is a CIC project through the Department of Agriculture & Livestock financed by a loan facility from World Bank (IDA) and IFAD (International Fund for Agricultural Development) with support from PNG Government.
Mr Dambui acknowledges the financiers includ-ing GoPNG for funding coffee improvement activi-ties which now involves 44 partnerships covering 10 coffee growing provinces namely Eastern Highlands (17), Simbu(3), Jiwaka(6), Western Highlands(4), Enga(3), Southern Highlands(3), East New Brit-ain(1), Morobe(2), Madang(4) and East Sepik(1).
The total number of households participating in the project from call 1 to 4 so far is 35,161. The break-up as per call is as follows: call 1-5737, call 2-7926, call 3-5892 and call 4-15,606 households covering 17,580 hectares in 10 provinces. Total funding for the project including call 4 is K59,502,637.
Project Manager Mr Potaisa Hombunaka is con-
CIC chief executive officer, Mr Charles Dambui,
(right), with PPAP ICO chairman, Mr. Ian Mopafi.
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Agricultural statistics play an important role in country’s sustainable development. Agricultur-al Statistics provide the scientific basis for the study of the development of economic and so-cial development, planning and decision mak-ing. Conventionally it was believed that agricultural statistics revolves around crop statistics. Main pa-rameters of agricultural statistics regarding crop are crop area, production and yield. But now agri-cultural statistics cover statistics relating to crops, livestock, fishery and forestry. Reliable agricultural statistics are essential to strengthen the capacity on Food Security Policy making for each country. However, various devel-oping countries are facing difficulties on Food Se-curity Policy making due to the lack of reliable official agricultural statistics. It is urgent to pro-vide and share the indispensable information for Food Security Policy making based on agricultur-al statistics through human resource development among countries facing such difficulties. Systems and techniques on agricultural statistics in Japan are developed up to the present, with many chang-es on development stage of agricultural policy. It is highly expected that these history and experi-ences has been applied and adopted on develop-ment of agricultural policy.
The Japanese Government under the JICA Knowledge Co-Creation Program (KCCP) con-ducted a 7 week training in Japan on Agricultural Statistics Planning and Designing on Food Securi-ty Policy Making from 07th August to 24th Sep-tember 2016. The training was attended by sixteen (16) participants from; Cote D’Vore, Malawi, Egypt, Madagascar, Myanmar, Sierra Leone,
Agricultural Statistics Planning and Designing on Food Security Policy Making
South Sudan, Sri Lanka, Timor-Leste, Uganda, Kenya and Papua New Guinea. In the case of Papua New Guinea, the last Ag-ricultural Survey conducted was in 1960 and the data became obsolete. Since then there was no Agricultural Survey conducted in PNG. The re-view done by UNFAO revealed that Agricultural Statistics have been generated along the value chain but there are no nodal agencies within the sector that has captured these data and has com-piled, collated and stored vital information for sector’s Planning and Designing purpose. The Department of Agriculture and Livestock considers this (JICA) training program very im-perative that the expected results will be very piv-otal to enhance the priority impact projects that is; Improving Agricultural Statistics and Information for the sector. This training program is the way forward for the department in building up the ca-pacity in improving the sector statistics which would nourish the policy making. The training was attended by Mr. Petrus Dii Urka of DAL Pol-icy Branch. The training course was focused on the process of data collection. It covered different methods of agriculture survey as well as Job Im-provement Plan for a project including infor-mation and communication tools to improve the timeliness, reliability and adequacy of Agricultur-al Statistics. The training has greater impact in capacity building and up skilled the knowledge of the participants to address issues in Planning, De-signing and Policy making and other related mat-ters.
Mr. Petrus Dii Urka, of DAL Policy Branch, third from right, standing with participants. Right, Petus with JICA Officials in
the rice fields.
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Agricultural shows and field days are important avenues for farmers to participate, showcase their products and learn from others.
Coffee farmer Josephine ToVadek says these type of events provides an opportunity for farmers to learn about innovative farming methods, new technology and exchange ideas and information with other farmers, agriculturalists, scientists, re-searchers and others.
Ms ToVadek, from the Sinivit LLG in Pomio district of East New Britain, said she was happy to attend the recent World Food Day celebrations in-cluding the farmer exchange forum held at PNG University of Natural Resources and Environment last month. She was among a group of farmers who attended the seminar and spoke about coffee, taro, rice, fresh vegetable, moringa and other farming ac-tivities, as well as putting up displays during the field days.
Her locally grown organic coffee was on display at the show and attracted a lot of interest.
“I really thank the PNG University of Natural Resources and Environment, the university staff and World Food Day organizing committee, for inviting me and giving me the opportunity to talk about my coffee project.”
“During the four days I spent at Vudal campus, I met people from various departments of the univer-sity and other stakeholders and partners, including
fellow farmers from other districts, and we discussed and exchanged views on many different issues af-fecting farming and food security and agriculture in general.”
“What I have learnt here during the World Food Day, I can be able to assist in training other women in my ward, community and district.”
Ms ToVadek, daughter of a for-mer prominent politician, late Mar-tin ToVadek, described coffee farm-ing as a challenge but she has not given up since she commenced growing Arabica coffee in around 2008. And she is encouraging other women who have land to venture into coffee and not concentrate on fresh produce only.
Despite many challenges includ-ing lack of technical support espe-cially in the initial stages, Ms To-Vadek, has not given up and is ap-preciative to her extended family
and relatives for their support. She started into co-coa farming but when awareness on coffee was tak-ing place she switched and does not regret it.
She has about 7000-10,000 coffee trees and plans to expand after getting advice from Coffee Industry Corporation and others.
“The market was not really good earlier but I am not giving up on coffee. I am still growing and man-aging my coffee block and will plan for further ex-pansion.”
Other women in Sinivit LLG have shown interest and there are now 25 members who have joined her group, Sinivit Women in Coffee. Many others see what they are doing and beginning to show interest.
Ms ToVadek is also thankful to the MP for Pom-io Elias Kapavore who has arranged for some of her coffee samples to be taken to Port Moresby for pro-cessing and promotional purposes. Feedback from those who have tasted her coffee indicates a promis-ing future.
Woman coffee farmer in East New Britain sets example
Ms ToVadek (right) holding a packaged sample of coffee flanked by extension
officer Sheila Sato with grounded coffee sample
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Papua New Guinean smallholder farmers face many challenges in the fresh produce industry and need more support from the government and other stakeholders.
There is some hope for farmers in several prov-inces through the proposed intervention by the Inter-national Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) at the request of the PNG Government.
Most farmers faced constraints which include access to credit, marketing, infrastructure, exten-
sion, training, pest and disease, deliv-ery of agricultural services and oth-ers. And farmers are always looking for assistance from the relevant gov-ernment agencies and other stake-holders.
IFAD with PNG Government sup-port is working on implementing a new project aimed at improving the livelihoods of village farming house-holds by ensuring that small farmers and growers in selected value chains have secured access through sustain-
able linkages to improved inputs, technologies, skills, financial services and markets. The introduc-tion of the project will assist in overcoming the chal-lenges and some of the problems faced by today’s farmers.
Market for Village Farmers or Maket Bilong Vilis Fama project will assist village farmers to move from subsistence agriculture to market-oriented production and farming as a business. The
New project aims to promote small farmers
Land use management is one of the key functions of the Department of Agriculture and Livestock Islands Regional Office in Kokopo, East New Britain.
And farmers throughout the Islands Region have been urged to utilize the services of the regional of-fice.
The regional land use advisor, Mr Chris Apisai, says the regional office has been working closely with stakeholders and partners in various activities including monitoring and evaluation of integrated projects, developing project proposals, land use planning, mapping using GPS and mapping for and project advisory visits.
At the recent World Food Day celebrations at the PNG University of Natural Resources and Environ-ment, DAL Islands regional office also had a stall and Mr Apisai had a busy time explaining the roles and functions of the regional office as well as ex-plaining the importance of land use management in agriculture development.
He said the regional office can provide quality advice and technical assistance to organizations and people engaged in agriculture farming. Besides land
use manage-ment, the office has staff who can provide advice on food crops, livestock, project preparation, planning and eco-nomics, extension and information.
Mr Apisai said the regional office will continue to work with and partner with other stakeholders in development of the agriculture sector and urged the farmers to also avail of the services provided by the office. He told farmers and students at the World Food Day that they can learn more about agriculture by visiting the office and talking to the staff. Or they can arrange for DAL staff to conduct awareness in their local communities.
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(L to R), local consultant Mr Joe Degemba,Lead Advsior, Mr Jonathan Agwe, Design
Team Leader, Ms Agnes Deshormes, IFAD country director, Mr Ron Hartman, meeting
with DAL staff.
DAL Regional Land Use advisor, Mr Chris Apisai,
chatting with University students during the WFD.
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objective is to enable the village farmers to earn more money and improve their livelihoods from in-creased marketed production.
The IFAD total loan contribution to the project is about US$25 million. Provincial governments are expected also to provide counterpart funding and approaches will be made to development partners to participate in the project.
There are three components, which are, inclusive business partnerships, supportive value chain invest-ment, and collective governance and project man-agement. The project will focus on one main value chain, fresh produce, as well as galip nut as a poten-tial export crop.
The project will be implemented on a six-year period in six provinces. Activities related to the fresh produce value chain will be implemented in four provinces in the highlands region, namely, Western Highlands, Jiwaka, Simbu and Eastern
Highlands and Morobe in the Mamose region. Galip nut related activities will be implemented in East New Britain.
It is expected that around 125,000 semi-subsistence village farmers will be assisted to en-gage in fresh produce value chains. Secondary bene-ficiaries include fresh produce buyers and financial institutions.
A design mission from IFAD visited the country last week and had meetings with relevant govern-ment departments including Agriclture and Live-stock, National Planning and Monitoring, Fresh Prodce Devleopment Agency, National Agriculture Research Institute, and development partners and others. The mission comprised of IFAD country di-rector, Mr Ron Hartman, Lead Advsior, Mr Jona-than Agwe, and Design Team Leader, Ms Agnes Deshormes.
A final design mission will return to the country in early 2017 and it is forecast that final approval from IFAD will be made in April, 2017.
and partnerships as well as farmers and other pro-vincial stakeholders. In addition to assessing the overall project progress, the mission also looked at other issues, including progress toward the comple-tion of the selection process for call 3 and 4 partner-ships, actions taken to strengthen post-project sus-tainability, to ensure continued farmer access to sup-port services and markets after the PPAP funding ends, the impact of the recent El Nino weather event, amongst others.
In AROB, the mission met with the administration and made field visits to partnerships in Tinputz, Wakunai, Konnou and Buin. They meet with repre-sentatives of the lead partners and farmers and in-spected cocoa blocks, cocoa nurseries, fermentaries and other activities. In Arawa, the mission held meetings and observed presentations by the various partnerships.
The mission later travelled to East New Britain for a similar program, meeting with the PPAP project management unit for co-coa, lead partners and visited co-coa blocks. The mission also travelled up to the highlands re-gion and met with the PPAP pro-ject management unit for coffee, and visited coffee projects in the Western Highlands and Jiwaka provinces and met with partner-
ships, coffee farmers and stakeholders.
The mission comprises of agricultural and rural development specialists, economist, operations ana-lyst, procument specialist, finance management spe-cialist, nutrition specialist and others.
PPAP is a jointly financed project by the World Bank (US$55 million) K165m, IFAD (US$36 mil-lion) K108m, the European Union (US$6 million) K18m, and the Government of PNG (US$4 million) K12m with a total funding of (USD101 million) K303m. The implementation of the project started in February 2011 with a completion date of 30th of June 2019.
The agriculture based development project, is aimed at improving performance and sustainability of val-ue chains in coffee and cocoa producing areas, thereby improving smallholder livelihoods.
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(L to R) IFAD consultant, Mr. Dan Vadnjal, PPAP nutrition specialist, Ms. Moniet Kindred, and IFAG
Co-Team leader, Ms. Agnes Deshormes, PPAP PCU senior monitoring and evaluation Officer, Mr.
Abner Yalu.
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The New Zealand Government recently present-ed the opportunity for a female officer with the Department of Agriculture and Livestock for a six week secondment with the Ministry for Pri-mary Industries.
Ms Daphne Onaga, food and nutrition officer with the DAL’s Agro-Food and Codex Food Safety Unit within the Science and Technology Branch, was in Wellington, from 1st August to 10th Septem-ber, 2016. Ms Onaga also travelled to Lima, Peru, as part of the secondment arrangement.
The primary objective of the secondment was for the officer to familiarize with Asia Pacific Econom-ic Cooperation (APEC) processes in preparation for PNG’s host year in 2018. Whilst it primarily fo-cused on New Zealand’s engagement with APEC on the Food Security agenda, there was also opportuni-ty to undertake further professional development with intra-organizational training programs and the chance to meet and engage with other government departments and stakeholders who work closely with Ministry for Primary Industries.
Ms Onaga learnt about the APEC processes in relation to all aspects of meeting preparation and hosting, including protocol arrangements, logistics planning, liaising with Peru as host economy and the PNG APEC Secretariat. She also assisted the NZ Ministry for Primary Industries to prepare, de-liver and report on the APEC workshop on food safety systems held in Lima, Peru. The workshop was held along the margins of the 3rd APEC Senior Officials Meeting (SOM3). The objective of the workshop was to promote the importance of robust food safety systems in achieving regional food secu-rity.
DAL officer on secondment in New Zealand Ms Onaga also assisted in the prepa-rations of the 4th APEC Food Security Ministerial Meeting (FSMM4) held in Piura, Peru, pertaining to her role as New Zealand Delegation Accreditation Of-ficer (DAO) and Delegation Liaison Of-ficer (DLO). Ms Onaga’s responsibilities included liaising between Peru as the host economy and the NZ Delegation; logistics planning; requesting and arrang-ing bilateral meetings between the New Zealand Minister for Primary Industries and his APEC counterparts; organizing and attending briefings and teleconfer-ences with key stakeholders; and compil-ing ministerial briefs.
Peru requested New Zealand to run an event to support its APEC 2016 theme - “Quality growth and human develop-ment”. Under this theme, an “APEC
Food Market” concept provided scope for conversa-tion around food safety and the contribution food safety makes to enhanced food security, as well as the quality and inclusiveness of growth outcomes in the region in support of the Food Safety Coopera-tion Forum (FSCF) and the Policy Partnership on Food Security (PPFS).
Representatives from 17 economies participated at the workshop. New Zealand was represented by Bruce Burdon (Market Access, MPI), Hannah Jaco-bi (International Policy, MPI), Daphne Onaga (International Policy, MPI); and supported on the day by Jacqui Caine (NZ Ambassador to Chile) and Elspeth Davidson (Asia Pacific Division, MFAT).
In addition to the NZ FSS Workshop, New Zea-land also attended events under the APEC
Food Safety Cooperation Forum (FSCF), Partner-ship Training Institute Network (PTIN) &
APEC Policy Partnership on Food Security (PPFS), specifically; (1) the Australian-led SideEvent on Import MRLs for Pesticides – “Understanding the new APEC Guideline”; and (2) the US-led Work-shop on Effective Industry/Regulator Cooperation – “Better Food Safety Regulation through Increased Transparency and Public Consultation”.
Ms Onaga has urged NDAL to submit an expres-sion of interest to the New Zealand Ministry for Pri-mary Industries on the proposed capacity develop-ment training programme on food safety which will be rolled out early next year. Although priority will be given to Vietnam and Papua New Guinea in preparation for their respective APEC host years, it is important to show our interest by submitting an early bid.
Ms Hannah Jacobi (left) from NZ MPI, with Ms Daphne Onaga, at the Lima Convention Center, Lima, Peru
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V I S I ON AN D M IS S IO N S TATE ME N T
“Proverbs 29 : 18 – Where there is no vision, the people perish.”
PNG‘s agriculture is a climate-smart and export-oriented business to pro-vide rural development, wealth crea-
tion and food security.
Take an active role in transforming the agriculture sector, provide sound professional policy advice, high quali-ty and effective technical and admin-istrative support to inspire and em-power optimal performance of all key
stakeholders.
Condolence Message The Minister, Secretary, Staff and Management of the Department of Agriculture &
Livestock convey our profound and sincere sympathy to husband Simon, daughters
Joy, Gabriella and Grace, families in Siasi Island Morobe, and Begasi & Gomwa Vil-
lages, Fergusson Island, Milne Bay for the loss and sorrow we now share of your lov-
ing mother, sister, relative, and our colleague for her untimely passing.
The late DOREKA MEGAN YANG, a very dedicated, committed and loyal officer,
served the Department of Agriculture & Livestock for 22 years, since commence-
ment of employment on 22/06/1994 as a KBO Grade 2 to KBO Grade 8 and then
Administrative Officer for Science and Technology Branch, until her death on 12 No-
vember, 2016. Colleagues and friends all around the country will all miss her and
pray that our good lord will grant her eternal peace.
