Programme giving farmers high-yielding seeds

PEOPLE living in the Ramale ward of the Kokopo Vunamami urban local level government in East New Britain can access 3,000 coconuts seeds for planting in 220 blocks in the Tobera plantation. Provincial Kokonut Indastri Korporesen (KIK) programme manager Ephraim Tade said the replanting programme would include a selection of high-yield tall coconut tress through a process known as “mother palm and plus palm selection”.
Tade said the 220 blocks had been subdivided by farmers from the ward.
Ramale ward member Joe Warapik said the farmers were ready to venture into downstream processing of some of the new products that KIK would be introducing.