Bara community within Maringe-Kokota Constituency (MKC) in Isabel Province will soon benefit from a poultry project worth $89,035.00. Located at Tirofihi, a site less than a kilometer away from Buala station, the national government through MKC Office is funding the…
The Office of the Registrar of Foreign Investment clarifies that Levers Solomons Limited (LSL) is NOT a registered entity in the Foreign Investment Registry. The clarification was made today following numerous enquiries to the Office of the Registrar of Foreign…
BY MYRNE LIVETT KASTOM GARDEN Association’s (CGA) backbone, the Pacific Islands Rural Agriculture Stimulus Facility (PIRAS) Project has lapsed last week, August 31st as project implementation reached many rural farmers in Central and Western Provinces. However, KGA according to the…
BY MIKE TUA HOSPITAL ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) Veterinary Personnel are currently been working closely with the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock and together they have developed a very robust program to address some of the agriculture and veterinary…
EAST Malaita Constituency (EMC) has commenced initial discussions with Aluta Basin landowning tribes on the national government’s proposal towards establishing rice farming for interested farmers within the Aluta Basin in Malaita Province. In a meeting held at Tatali growth center…
BY MYRNE LIVETT THE Government’s Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock aims to improve the delivery with the rollout of the World Banks funded, Solomon Islands Agriculture Rural Transformation Program in the country, says Deputy Director Project, McDonnell Hiva. The World…
BY MYRNE LIVETT DEPUTY Secretary Technical, Michael Ho’ota has admitted that the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock officers are not able to reach out to rural communities in the country due to weak logistics support and not enough funding. The…
BY LESLEY FOINAGWA MORE than ten coconut farmers in the West Kwaio region of Malaita province have earlier this year received tools from their Member of Provincial Assembly (MPA) for Ward 28, Hon. Clodio Teifi. The plantation tools consist of…
BY MYRNE LIVETT DEPUTY Director Project of Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock, McDonnell Hiva has expressed concern over the lack of technical and advisory services to farmers across Guadalcanal and blamed the provincial agricultural extension officers for not precisely doing…
BY MYRNE LIVETT SMALL-scale semi-subsistence farming remains a common practice that sustains the livelihood of most people in Central Guadalcanal. Recently, Isles Media interviewed Freddie Nahum Maeni 52, one of a hard-working rural semi-subsistence farmers of Mataruka village in the…
BY JOHN HOUANIHAU MANITA Youth Farm in Makira Ulawa Province last week marked the birth of their Association on July 19. “We marked the one-year anniversary of the association on 19 July,” Facilitator and coordinator, Donnis Ramogetea confirmed to Environment…
A review on the National Agriculture and Livestock policy gets underway at the B-17 Dive resort, Northwest Guadalcanal, Guadalcanal Province starting today Tuesday 26 July 2022. The 2 days national review saw the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MAL) bring…
