BY PEARSON KOLO
THE Highlands Agriculture College in Mt Hagen was granted a license by National Agriculture Research Institute to import seedlings of any variety of crops from anywhere in the world.
This license enables the college to research what other crops they can grow and produce in the country. College Principal Philip Senat said: “The college is growing rice after the government of PNG and the government of Republic of China went into an understanding in 2009 to plant rice in the country.
“Through this research, the college has proven that a variety of rice can grow very well in the country and we will be harvesting more than 20 tonnes of rice next month.”
College Farm Manager Gibson Simon said yielding of the seedlings brought in from was high.
The College thanked NARI for granting them the license and said the college will continue to assist the Government of Papua New Guinea to research crops that are imported from overseas to find out which ones can be grown here.
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