THE Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock continue to deliver its mandatory services to farmers throughout the country despite reduction on its development budget due to Covid-19 pressures. MAL Minister, Hon. Senley Filualea told Parliament while contributing to the sine-die motion…
A Kava training for farmers in the Northern part of Vella La Vella Island in the Western Province was deemed successful. Farmers from three selected villages including Iriqila, Karaka and Valapata undertook the demonstration training from 17th-25th November 2020, facilitated…
THE Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MAL) through its Public Private Partnership (PPP) agreement with Foodworks Suppliers Limited has made another landmark achievement after both parties launched the Hatchery & Stockfeed government funded project on 30th November 2020. This came…
BY ALEX DADAMU YOUTHS of Lord Howe and Sikaiana will soon engage in a farming initiative aimed at strengthening food security at the Outer Islands as the state of food security there is worsening alarmingly. President of Malaita Provincial Youth…
BY ALEX DADAMU WITH the change in temperatures between the ocean and atmosphere in the east-central Equatorial Pacific and the push of the eastern pacific warm waters to the western pacific waters where the Solomon Islands is located, tuna stocks…
BY ALEX DADAMU PEOPLE love fish and often at times, the hard work of Fishermen were disregarded and overlooked. The Trade of fishing is no easy task. But some families in rural areas in the Solomon Islands are depending on…
BY MIKE TUA THE COVID-19 global pandemic has allowed Solomon Islands including regional aspiring and experienced journalists to connect using the ‘Zoom’ – an online platform for this year’s Pacific Islands Climate Outlook Forum virtual media workshop. The four-day virtual…
BY ALEX DADAMU WHILE the country is fighting the war against the Coronavirus Pandemic, an environmental health issue that has been around for quite sometimes now and has become an eye-sore to suburbs in and around Honiara City is the…
BY JOHN CHRISMA ITS official – Solomon Island National University’s Panatina Campus – single ablution block has been described by a student as bad and smelly; needing urgent attention. A concerned student, Margret Aumamua said that recently the situation is…
BY JOHN CHRISMA FIBREGLASS boat builder encourages fishermen and other fiberglass boat owners in the Solomon Islands that old broken fiberglass boats are still useful if repaired and to decrease littering and contaminating our coastlines. Over the years, Business owner…
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…
