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, …
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Sustainable agriculture Papua
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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 …
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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 …
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Economy
Papua New Feed Factory Could Transform Papua’s Agriculture and Livestock Industry
by Senamanby SenamanBy 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 …
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Economy
Papua’s Cocoa Potential: How a 1,000-Hectare Plan Could Transform Rural Livelihoods in Indonesia’s East
by Senamanby SenamanIn 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. …
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A new kind of chance is growing in the soft morning light that comes through the trees in Papua. International business interest is starting to wake up behind the normal …
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Economy
How Papua’s Growing Agriculture Sector Is Creating Work and Changing Lives
by Senamanby SenamanOn a cool morning in Sarmi Regency in Papua, the smell of wet earth hangs in the air as sunlight filters through young rice shoots and banana palms. The fields …
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Economy
Papua Promotes Cocoa and Coffee as a Sustainable Path for Regional Growth
by Senamanby SenamanPapua is once again at the center of a national and international conversation about development, sustainability, and economic direction. This time, the focus is not on large scale oil palm …
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Economy
Siep Kosi Village Integrated Village Economic Transformation Program to Become Dragon Fruit Center
by Senamanby SenamanPAPUA – One of the biggest impacts of the Integrated Village Economic Transformation Program of the Ministry of Villages, Disadvantaged Regions and Transmigration is the change in mindset of the …
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Economy
Visited by the Government, Papuan Farmers Hope Food Estate Can Improve People’s Economy
by Senamanby SenamanMerauke – Farmers in Telaga Sari Village, Merauke appreciated the 40,000 hectares of land assistance provided by Minister of Agriculture Amran Sulaiman during his working visit to Telaga Sari Village, …
