Training focuses on improving fresh produce

Livelihood improvement skills training, extension and material support to improve farmers’ fresh produce ability at Fayantina in Henganofi, Eastern Highlands.
The Anis Foundation Incorporated (AFI) conducted the training, enhancing 1000 people at Skai Pundaun, Kosionte, Hogoteru and Imaka communities in mid 2016-2017.
AFI president Sil Poi said that the skills trainings were on cultivating vegetables, staple food crops and livestock, and post-harvest technologies in harvesting, drying and storage.
It also included financial literacy, business cooperatives and associations, sewing and cooking blended in with awareness on important cross-cutting development issues like gender equity, gender-based violence, HIV/AIDS and health issues.
Poi said that the monitoring and evaluation of the projects conducted from April 15-18 had seen successful results.
He said AFI was a Lae-based non- government organisation working in partnership with Asian Development Bank and the Works Department.
It facilitates livelihood improvement activities to support people affected by ADB-Works Department funded road infrastructure development activities along the Henganofi-Nupuru Road.