Brewery urged to inform villagers

 TARARAN and Zifasing cassava farmers in Morobe want SP Brewery to inform them of the kind of starch cassava tuber produces.

Interim chairman of the PNG Biomass Zone ‘A’ project Sam Meyab, said their plantation cassava was taken by South Pacific Brewery through a partnership to be trialed for brewing alcohol late last year.

He said SP Brewery took a lot of their cassava for trialing but did not pay them. 

“SP Brewery took a lot of our cassava for trial and we want them to pay us. The company must also inform us what product they produced with the starch from our cassava,” Meyab said. 

He said if the company had produced a new product, then it should consider naming the product after the locality, from Wampar in Markham valley.

The landowners from Morobe, who have grown cassava on a  large scale and intercropped it with plantation trees at their Ganef Biomass plantation in Wampar, also clarified that they were not from Nawaeb.