Women’s association invests in poultry programme

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POULTRY projects are popular activity women in the Astrolabe Bay LLG of Rai Coast in Madang are doing.
According to a statement from Ramu NiCo mining project, this is a result of royalty payment made by the company to landowners last year.
Coastal Pipeline Women’s Association (CPLWA) chairman Ruth Kamai said poultry project is the popular activity which saw 30-35 women groups venturing into in three zones in the LLG which include Marika, Bugati and Siroi.
Kamai said each zone was allocated K60,000 from for their small groups’ projects.
She said of the small enterprises selected, poultry broiler chicken drew 30/35 small groups’ interests, trade store, four whilst bakery reported one as the least.
Marika zone recorded the highest number of financial members of 593, Bugati with 227 members whilst Siroi with 153.
Ramu NiCo community affairs gender and sustainable agriculture supervisor, Allan Wahwah said monitoring and nurturing would be on-going and the company along with Mineral Resources Authority, Department of Agriculture and Livestock and the Coastal Pipeline Women’s Association were encouraged to consistently work together to ensure that there was growth in agriculture and small to medium enterprises in the area.

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  • It is really encouraging to learn about landowners’ royalty payments allocated to women empowerment agendas. Women are young girls are regarded as inferior and vulnerable in most PNG patrlineal societies. Market accessibility for poultry chicken and other agriculture products should be supported. Transport infrastructure, micro financial services for loan support, land accessibility and improved technologies should be other areas development stakeholders should address for SME growth in PNG. Congratulations to the Coastal Pipeline Women’s Associations in their women empowerment initiatives.

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