DEVELOPING the Noni industry and others like kava and cassava is one of the key policy priority of the Democratic Coalition Government for Advancement (DCGA) therefore the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MAL) remains committed to it. Permanent Secretary of…
BY ALEX DADAMU WOMEN noni farmers under the North West Guadalcanal Subsistence Farmers Association have expressed their profound appreciation to Solomon Noni Corporation and its founder Hon. Bodo Dettke for resuming buying of Noni fruits. A mother of four, Mrs.…
BY MIKE TUA MEMBER of Parliament (MP) for North West Guadalcanal and owner of Solomon Noni Corporation Bodo Dettke is now trying out the processing of dried breadfruit starch into flour, according to reliable source. The initiator of Noni products…
BY OFANI EREMAE AT Korona logging base on San Jorge Island in Solomon Islands’ Isabel province, the logging machinery lay quiet. Except for the movement of three local security guards, the silence in this once bustling log pond was deafening.…
THE first ever 10-year Agriculture Sector Growth Strategy and Investment Plan (ASGSIP 2021-2030) has received overwhelming support and valuable inputs from government line ministries as it going through final consultations for ratification before presentation to Cabinet. This was after a…
BY ALEX DADAMU THERE is a sense in which people are looking at the stimulus package with great expectation. Dr. Transform Aqorau has stated that when all is done and dusted and the world health and economy is stabilized –…
BY JOHN HOUANIHAU THE rural people in Pipisu village in West Are’are in Malaita province will now have better access to health and primary care services, with the recent completion of a new two-story clinic building project. The construction of…
BY JOHN HOUANIHAU HONIARA residents must know that water from boreholes installed by Solomon Water is tested and treated first before the water is used for domestic purposes to avoid contracting diseases, Solomon Water Engineer, Ray Anderson has said. The…
BIOSECURITY officers of the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MAL) Friday, last week destroyed the dozen of concealed goods which was impounded from a shipment at the Ports International wharf in Honiara on Thursday 25th February. The goods were destroyed…
BY ALEX DADAMU FOR Half an hour, the roar of the chainsaw entertain the neighbourhood and now, it went silent in the quiet Mbua Valley neighbourhood – to be replaced with the loud thud of a tree safely hitting the…
BY LESLEY FOINAGWA ALICK Kona, the Assistant Fisheries Officer of the Malaita Province, has urged youths to engage in Tilapia fish farming, calling it a ‘profitable business’. Kona was speaking at the fisheries awareness talk program previously held at ward…
BY JOHN HOUANIHAU MAJOR changes may come to the way of forecasting the weather in the Pijin version especially on the way weather watch updates, warning, and advisory statements are transferred to the public. The Solomon Islands Meteorological Services (SIMS)…