Similar land issues make NZ-PNG good parners

TRADITIONAL land in New Zealand and Papua New Guinea is something businesses in both countries have to work around in order to operate, says an official.
This similarity makes sense for PNG and New Zealand businesses to partner in areas like agriculture, says Pacific Trade Invest chief executive Michael Greenslade.
He is a board member of the New Zealand-PNG Business and part of a trade mission to the country this week.
“Businesses on both sides have experience on being able to partner and work with landowners for commercial projects,” Greenslade said.
This is the same for New Zealand business with some land owned by Maori.
“The same is here in PNG where much more land is owned by the people.
“That experience and familiarity on doing business in such a settings is one way that can help create effective partnerships.
“I think New Zealand has got the technical expertise to assist landowners in Papua New Guinea to be able to grow export products of global quality.
“We are smaller than Papua New Guinea in terms of landmass and population and can only supply the global market according to that.
“PNG has the ability to go beyond that amount with a range of products.
“I am here in terms of finding ways to develop the export potential of products here back to the New Zealand and global market.
“We had a workshop here in Port Moresby on Tuesday.
“Due to an invite from your deputy prime minister, who has been a good friend, we will also be doing the same workshop in Alotau (today).”