Food processor keen to help youths work

Business

By ZACHERY PER
A local food-processing company is focused on creating employment to boost economic wellbeing of farming families.
Director of Niugini Food Processors Mathew Jim Liu said his company aimed to create employment for youths by helping them cultivate their land to produce crops that his company can buy.
“Creating sustainable employment for rural farmers, alleviating poverty and creating economic wealth by nurturing financial benefits to individuals, groups, associations, districts, province and the country as whole is our main vision,” Liu said.
Niugini Food Processors produce the popular Lezate fruit wine made from locally-grown fruits.
Jim said the company produced ginger wine, mango wine and tamarillo wine in 2-litre and 375ml bottles.
“We are working hard to produce a much-finer brand of spirits which will be derived from
byproducts of ginger, mango, tamalilo and carrot,” he said.
He said these products were certified under European wine standards at the University of Technology’s food and beverages analysis laboratory in Lae.