Noah promoting organic agriculture

NOAH Taugaloidi is an entrepreneur from Bou village in Milne Bay.
He traded the ‘bright lights’ of Alotau for peace, tranquility and a new beginning, founding the Bou Resource Development Cooperative Society to promote organic agriculture and inland fish farming encouraging self-reliance in rural communities.
Noah graduated, in August, with a certificate in entrepreneurship and new venture creation which was an Australia Awards short course designed to help business owners grow and diversify their activities by equipping them with practical skills and knowledge in business planning, finance, promotion and management.
“The course was a major game changer for me as to how I could strategically re-align our project to embrace new methods and ways of growing our co-op model and its members,” Taugaloidi said.
“I realised early during the course that the existing co-op model was restrictive as it only recognised single based product models whilst the general co-op model was designed for expansion.
“This gave me the opportunity to redevelop a hybrid enterprise model called the Accelerated Co-op Enterprises or Ace model.”
During the course, his project of choice was “developing working communities through a co-operative society model from being reliant to self-sustainable and wealth creation through enterprising ventures and incubator eco-systems”.
The focus was production, packaging, and marketing of high value virgin coconut oil products and high-end bi-products.