Farm products bringing in money

By PETER ESILA
SOME vendors at the Boroka Market in Port Moresby say selling farm produce every day is important.
Betty Makabe from Tari, Hela buys peanuts, watermelon and pawpaw to sell at the market.
She has been doing it for five years.
The mother-of-four manages to sell everything before the market closes each day.

Vendor Anna Pot buys five bags of sweet potatoes from the Gerehu market every day at K100 each to sell at the Boroko Market. Pot, from Western Highlands said sales at Boroko had been good recently.
Cabbage vendor Rose Paul, also from Western Highlands, said they bought bags of cabbage from one supplier in Mt Hagen.
According to a discussion paper from the National Research Institute, the informal economy activity provides the sole source of household income for respondents who were interviewed.

“The other half of the respondents have other sources of income,” the discussion paper stated.
“This means that multiple sources of income, from both informal and formal sources, are quite common as a livelihood strategy.
“For unemployed men and women, income from both formal and informal sources may be earned by other members of the household.
“Some individuals are formally employed but also have other sources of informal income on the other side.
“Others may move between formal and informal types of employment.”