By MATTHEW VARI
Wednesday, December 10, 2014 (Midweek Chronicle, PNG)
WITH renewed calls by critics in both the community, business, and political circles for the country’s major rice manufacturer Trukai Industries Limited to encourage the use and production of locally grown rice.
In responding to those calls, Trukai CEO Greg Worthington-Eyre said that the company was well into rice projects in various provinces to increase local content to enable economic benefits to rural farmers and the economy as a whole.
“There have been some issues around the development of rice production in Papua New Guinea over the course of time,” the CEO said.
“If you don’t know the we have a number of projects now running and piloting a number of hectares of rice production in Central Province, West New Britain, Morobe Province, and also talking to a significant farming community in Oro province where they have been growing successfully a particular variety of rice for about 12 years, so much so they product a pest resistant variety of rice.”
He took a particular interest in the variety grown in the Oro Province, adding that the variety grown was that of high quality and flavor.
“I was out there 8 weeks ago talking to them and trying their rice which is quiet flavorsome, quiet good, and we will be looking at purchasing some of that from them as well, as our social responsibility program which looks also at sourcing rice from the local community,” he added.
“That will put millions of kina back into the local community to develop wealth and wellbeing for the country to benefit as a whole through the cycle of consumerism will develop even further.”
He also announced the extension of the companies product line to include livestock feed to help in increasing protein production in the country.
“We will also be extending our own rice production in Morobe to 400 hectares- to do that we are going to reduce the size of our cattle herd and also other things around pig and chicken stock feed research to lower the price for protein for Papua New Guineans.”
“We are going to a mixed agricultural approach there.”
Wednesday, December 10, 2014 (Midweek Chronicle, PNG)
WITH renewed calls by critics in both the community, business, and political circles for the country’s major rice manufacturer Trukai Industries Limited to encourage the use and production of locally grown rice.
In responding to those calls, Trukai CEO Greg Worthington-Eyre said that the company was well into rice projects in various provinces to increase local content to enable economic benefits to rural farmers and the economy as a whole.
“There have been some issues around the development of rice production in Papua New Guinea over the course of time,” the CEO said.
“If you don’t know the we have a number of projects now running and piloting a number of hectares of rice production in Central Province, West New Britain, Morobe Province, and also talking to a significant farming community in Oro province where they have been growing successfully a particular variety of rice for about 12 years, so much so they product a pest resistant variety of rice.”
He took a particular interest in the variety grown in the Oro Province, adding that the variety grown was that of high quality and flavor.
“I was out there 8 weeks ago talking to them and trying their rice which is quiet flavorsome, quiet good, and we will be looking at purchasing some of that from them as well, as our social responsibility program which looks also at sourcing rice from the local community,” he added.
“That will put millions of kina back into the local community to develop wealth and wellbeing for the country to benefit as a whole through the cycle of consumerism will develop even further.”
He also announced the extension of the companies product line to include livestock feed to help in increasing protein production in the country.
“We will also be extending our own rice production in Morobe to 400 hectares- to do that we are going to reduce the size of our cattle herd and also other things around pig and chicken stock feed research to lower the price for protein for Papua New Guineans.”
“We are going to a mixed agricultural approach there.”
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