Sustainable agriculture Papua

Nabire Regency in Papua Tengah (Central Papua) is now focused on empowering Indigenous Papuan farmers in developing rural areas. The local government has implemented a training programme for 15 Indigenous …

“Rumors that have circulated online saying the government is buying community in Papua Selatan land at only Rp100,000 per hectare under the Merauke’s Food Estate program are not true,” Indonesia’s …

As food security is becoming a more important strategic issue across the globe, Merauke in Papua Selatan (South Papua) Province is slowly carving its name as one of Indonesia’s brightest …

Indonesia has stepped up efforts to turn Papua Tengah (Papua Tengah) into one of the country’s emerging cocoa-producing regions with an ambitious agricultural programme that includes the distribution of 3.6 …

Papua is set to play a bigger role in Indonesia’s long-term food security strategy after the government’s plan to develop and optimise around 137,000 hectares of agricultural land across the …

Papua’s rich agricultural heritage has the potential to play a bigger role in strengthening regional food security following a dialogue between Indonesia’s Minister of Agriculture and 150 Papuan university students, …

Yasinta Moiwend, better known in Merauke as Mama Sinta, knew her stance on the government’s food estate project would attract attention when she made it public earlier this year. The …

Farmers across much of Papua are already at work before dawn. Rice fields in newly opened agricultural areas in the lowland of South Papua. In the fertile valleys of the …

By midday, trucks carrying harvested corn already move along parts of Keerom Regency. Some travel short distances between villages. Others continue toward markets where prices often depend less on production …

In parts of Papua Barat (West Papua) province, cocoa trees are not new. They grow behind houses, along village paths, and in small plots that families have tended for years. …