Central group join Milne Bay copra training

SIX Central farmers were among those who took part in a training on copra production organised by the Milne Bay government and the Kokonas Indastri Koporesen (KIK).
The week-long training was held at the Bubuleta livestock and agriculture station outside Alotau.
The participants from Milne Bay’s four districts included six farmers from Central’s Magarida, Amazon Bay.
KIK officers Harold Joseph and James Maora and their Central colleague Steven Pasu taught farmers on how to produce copra.
During a practical session, farmers were taken through the stages of copra production, starting with husking, removal of embryo and water, drying in the sun and taking the copra to the dryer to be heated by fire overnight.
The next day, dried copra was unloaded from the dryer, scooped, sorted out to identify only good white copra, bagged and then weighed.
Spokesperson for farmers, Edmund Ede’ede representing Esa’ala, thanked the facilitators, saying they would use what they had learnt.