Organisation starts agriculture training in Sepik

By DALE LUMA
THE Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has started agriculture training exercises and awareness for farmers in East and West Sepik.
This is under the K340 million EU (European Union)-funded Streit (Support to rural entrepreneurship investment trade) programme rollout in the two provinces.
Giving an update on the project, the FAO Wewak office told The National that they had started work by visiting districts in East Sepik and parts of West Sepik to create awareness on the Streit programme and target model farmers to train, beginning with cocoa.
The training was basically to educate farmers on proper propagation and budding of agriculture products and to improve their value, according to FAO Wewak.
It said it was also meeting with relevant stakeholders such as the provincial department of agriculture offices and district administration as well as local exporters create and improve the supply chain.
According to FAO Wewak, it was in the process of bringing in vanilla and fisheries officers for training in those areas to begin.
It was also looking at also setting up sub offices in the two provinces to support its current office in Wewak.