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Project News: Support to Rural Entrepreneurship, Investment and Trade in Papua New Guinea (EU-STREIT), May 2021 - Issue #7

Year of publication 2021

Place of publication Wewak, Papua New Guinea ;

Pages 8

Author FAO

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Project

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) ​This newsletter highlights major activities undertaken under FAO-Led EU-funded UN-joint Programme for Support to Rural Entrepreneurship, Investment and Trade in Papua New Guinea (EU-STREIT). This issue focuses on the important activities, including supporting PNG authorities to use innovative agricultural survey methods, workshops held on gender mainstreaming in food value chains, training conducted on proper practices of agricultural products cultivation, husbandry and processing, and distribution of essential agricultural inputs. The Programme, in partnership with the national and local governments and administrations, mainly focuses on supporting the local population in advancing their agri-business knowledge, skills and activities pertaining to cocoa, vanilla and fisheries production in the East and West Sepik Provinces. Other stories in this issue are on the Programme Steering Committee's meeting, which was held to review the implementation of the First Phase of the Programme and approve the budget and work plan for 2021.

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