Without any road access, the farmers in Mt Bosavi region have been struggling to sell their produce to the outside market.
Mr Andrew Awabi, Chairman for Mt Bosavi Sustainable Agriculture Development Initiative (SADI) told PNG HAUSBUNG that Mt Bosavi SADI has being carrying out Community Livelihood projects on sustainable Agriculture and development projects to the communities.
As a result of much training and awareness, people of Bosavi have being doing large scale farming, both for commercial and sustainable purpose.
“Sustainable farming has helped our people here but sadly the commercial crops are very hard to get out of the region to markets.”
“People of Bosavi are doing large scale farming; there are big quantities of quality produce that needs to find its way to the market.”
Awabi said that the farmers have being doing large scale farming with potatoes, Vanilla, turmeric, curry, vegetables, and they have even tapped into fish and crocodile farming but sadly with no road access all this produce will go to waste.
“We need help to get all these produce to markets, therefore we are calling on the Fresh Produce Development Agency, Dept of Agriculture and Livestock as well as the Provincial Government to come to our aid and create a way for us to export our produce out of Bosavi to any nearest market or help find us a market where we can become their point of supply.”
Awabi added that the Bosavi LLG must give assistance to the Framers of Bosavi too. Mt Bosavi SADI is looking at Making Mt Bosavi area the next major fresh produce zone and supplier to markets in the country and to export and we can only achieve this with help from the Provincial and National government and partners.