Thanks to permission from the National Ag Quarantine service the Activity was able to bring Rhizobium to assist with both peanut and soybean nodulation. Rhizobium help legumes fix nitrogen – crucial to their ability to improve soil fertility and provide high protein seeds for human and animal use. Thanks also to Ben Heyward – here […]
The Activity has run a total of thirteen main workshops in Enga and Simbu. Many more follow up workshops have been conducted and this has allowed farmers to share with other farmers and the project trainers – their experiences. These have been really valuable. We have benefited greatly from plant materials from NARI (sweet potato […]
The New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade funded drought and climate change mitigation activity has had a focus on training and resourcing village farmers with improved planting material. Kaukau (kumara/sweet potato) is a village staple for almost all highlanders but the recent drought made conditions very suitable for plague level problems with two […]
The NZMFAT funded team are increasing food resilience for village farmers in some of the simplest ways possible. The really poor in PNG remain isolated and good quality planting materials are hard to come by. Yams are not for everyone. The African yam is wonderful, but only in warmer areas. Luckily there’s plenty of warm […]
Gall mite has been around for quite a while. When it’s bad, it can be really bad. The microscopic sized mite causes galls (bumps) on the leaves, leaf petioles and stems of infected kaukau plants. Those galls can really interfere with water and nutrient movement up and down the plant. That means greatly reduced yield […]
check out a couple of simple you tube clips https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POBdiOssHbI and