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Strengthening Pacific Islands private sector export capability

PHAMA Plus Team Leader Andrew Piper (left) and Pacific Trade Invest New Zealand (PTI NZ) Trade Commission Glynis Miller after signing a collaboration in Suva yesterday to strengthen and support Pacific Islands’ private sector to improve market access and grow exportability to the New Zealand market. Pacific Trade Invest New Zealand (PTI NZ) and the Pacific Horticultural and Agricultural Market Access Program (PHAMA Plus) are forging closer engagement to support

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Inclusive Dryer Design – Better Access for Women

South Seas Commodities (SSC) is a family-owned company based in Port-Vila Vanuatu which commenced business in 2010. With a wealth of experience in the kava trade, SSC has four fulltime employees and sources their kava from rural households on Pentecost Island. SSC’s vision is to export superior quality kava. It produces kava products from raw materials which are sourced from sustainable, local farms that follow good agricultural practices. The quality

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Family Farm Teams for greater inclusion and better farming

Family Farm Teams for greater inclusion and better farming PHAMA Plus is working with export partners across the Pacific to improve productivity, quality and enhance farmers’ access to information and inputs. Typically, such services are delivered by male extension officers to male farmers and there can be limited participation of women or other family members in education and training. Women in particular face limited access to resources such as extension

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Push for Equality – PNG’s First Female Vet

Push for Equality – PNG’s First Female Vet At only 32 years old, Dr Tania Areori is Papua New Guinea’s first-ever female vet. Since November 2020, Dr Areori has been working as the Regional Veterinary officer – New Guinea Islands (NGI) for the National Agriculture Quarantine and Inspection Authority (NAQIA). She is currently based in Port Moresby to learn from other animal health officers taking part in the African Swine

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Queen Emma Chocolate thrives with PHAMA Plus Partnership

Queen Emma Chocolate thrives with PHAMA Plus Partnership Papua New Guinea’s (PNG) very own chocolate company, Queen Emma Chocolate from Paradise Foods Limited, has been able to cut costs for local cocoa farmers and develop new cocoa products through a partnership with the Pacific Horticultural and Agricultural Market Access Plus Program (PHAMA Plus). Large-scale production equipment leaves little room to batch-test small samples of cocoa beans from local farmers. This

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