Firm: Plan underway to combine fisheries, agriculture

 Urban Farmers director Dickson Ermot says a plan is underway to integrate fisheries with agriculture through technology.

He said this would allow people to benefit from both (agriculture and fisheries). Urban farmers is an agricultural company based at 9-Mile outside Port Moresby.

Ermot said agriculture was a very important sector which more than 80 per cent of the population depended on and should complement fisheries.  

He urged the Government through the National Fisheries Authority to direct more people into fish farming.  

More than 50,000 had already been engaged in it. 

Ermot said it was sad that the market for fish produced locally especially from the Highlands was small.  

He said the Government should come up with the aid package for farmers to make sure that whatever the farmers produced was translated into cash as that would encourage them to produce more.