Agro firm trains graduates to be part of management

FOURTEEN people have completed training at Mainland Holdings Limited to be part of the company’s management team.
Mainland Holdings human resources official Nancy Uruaka said the 14 people were recruited by the company.
She said three will work at the 6-Mile processing plant while two will be stationed at the Christian Leaders Training College in Banz, Jiwaka, and Alstonia in Port Moresby.
The other nine will be posted to Lae, Huon Gulf and Markham districts in Morobe.
“The graduate training programme runs for two years to see whether they are competent and perform to our expectations,” she said.
“Then we can make them permanent straightaway on the merits of their performances.
“We give them senior positions like supervisors, assistant managers or managers.”
She said the programme was to develop and empower the trainees to be managers in the company’s operations.
“The induction training is very important as we have to start them off with the right HR policies to meet our obligations, occupational health safety and environment policies and make them feel that they are part of the company,” Uruaka said.
The trainees graduated from University of Technology and Papua New Guinea University of Natural Resources with a Bachelor of Science in Agriculture degree.
Mainland Holdings is an industrial conglomerate specialising in agriculture and livestock business. It operates in the coffee, agribusiness and poultry sectors and is based in Lae.