The Community Benefit Sharing Project (CBSP) team are out in the community this week initiating preparations for the construction of water supply systems under component 2a of the program. It is the final preparation work required before actual construction begins…
Biosecurity officers of the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MAL) conducted a one-day awareness training on integrated pest and disease management for Komuniboli community members in East Guadalcanal on 15th April 2021. Focused on pest control, specifically on Giant African…
“COVID-19 pandemic has affected our cash flow resulting on us those residing on the islands facing difficulty to get vegetables from the market as we only depend on that to access vegetables since vegetables like Saladia, Pak Choi and Tomato…
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.…
OFFICERS of the Biosecurity Solomon Islands (BSI) within the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MAL) are currently investigating an alleged Coconut Rhinoceros Beetle (Oryctes Rhinoceros) attack on Noni plant at Baunasaitonga Noni Farm in East Guadalcanal. Following reports of the…
THE Government through the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MAL) remain committed to deliver Sape Farm and Varivao Holdings Ltd National Food Bank projects despite budget pressures brought to by Covid-19 pandemic. Under the National Food Bank project, MAL to…
BY JOHN CHRISMA RURAL cocoa farmers in the Sagalu Ward, North West Guadalcanal are worried as rats are eating up their cocoa pods, which may destroy the productivity of their cocoa plantations. The farmers are now calling for the government’s…
BY JOHN HOUANIHAU THE government and people of the Solomon Islands together with development partners can strengthen disaster risk reduction and management policies in particularly for the most vulnerable population in the country,” according to the US Ambassador to Papua…
BY JOHN HOUANIHAU THE provinces of Malaita and Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands will benefit from a signed two-year US$1 million under the USAID funded project which will focus on disaster risk reduction policies and management. The Government of the…
BY JOHN CHRISMA UNIDENTIFIED fishermen sighted on outboard motors are continuing with the use of improvised dynamite explosives to kill schools of fish for easy harvesting along the coastal waters of North-West Guadalcanal, according to a rural fisherman from Aruligho,…
BY TAVAKE SIMON HANA’AROA 183 Kava farmers in the weather coast region of Guadalcanal now have the knowledge capacity to enhance kava production and boosting agricultural economic activities in their region, the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MAL) has reported.…
BY TAVAKE SIMON HANA’AROA WITH the current widespread of kava farming across the country, kava farmers in Guadalcanal province together with its provincial government are aiming to produce at least up to 5 metric tons of kava by 2023. This…
