Cooperative societies in Anglimp-South Waghi get K1.7 million

THE 260 cooperative societies in the Anglimp-South Waghi district of Jiwaka province have been paid K1.7 million, according to MP Joe Kuli Koim.
He handed out the cheques on Friday at Kindeng.
Minister for Commerce and Industry and Chuave MP Wera Mori witnessed the presentation.
He told the people that economic empowerment through the people was the way to build the country.
Mori said economic empowerment through Small Medium Enterprise made a big difference in peoples’ lives.
He said the welfare of the nation depended on the wellbeing’s of its population.
Mori said the government was duty bound to help and protect the integrity of its people.
“We must look at practical change by empowering our people,” he said.
Mori said Western Highlands and Jiwaka used to be the agriculture backbone of the country but now many coffee plantations were run down because of management and landowner issues.
He said that the Government would next year revive the Waghi Mek coffee plantations.
The Government would engage a registrar of land titles to identified landowners of the Waghi Mek plantations, divide the plantations into blocks, register them, and bring investors to build factories, and process coffee from block holders into green beans for export.