Friday February 12th 2021
From ANASTHASIA ANGORO in Goroka
Prime Minister Hon. James Marape says the National Government will make available K7 million to Eastern Highlands for coffee price stabilisation.
PM Marape said the money would be chanelled through the Office of the Vice-Minister for Agriculture and Daulo MP Hon. Pongio Ghate.
The K7 million will be used to fix coffee bean price at K6 per kg.
“The Hon. Pongio Ghate will work with the farmers of Eastern Highlands to ensure you sell your coffee beans at K6 per kg,” PM Marape said in Goroka yesterday (Thursday February 11th).
“I want you to go back and rehabilitate your coffee gardens and vegetable gardens because that is where the money is.
“The Vice-Minister and your MPs will work together to put in a structure that will ensure that the price is stabilised at K6 per kg so that you can make money.”
PM Marape said this was an incentive that the National Government woukf be putting into place to encourage coffee growers to rehabilitate their coffee farms and make money.
He said his Government was empowering people by building roads, markets and increasing prices of cash crops like coffee and copra.
“Today, I want to thank the people of Eastern Highlands,” PM Marape said.
” Your Governor (Hon. Peter Numu) has been standing behind my Government, believing in the philosophy of empowering you ordinary women and men in the village.
“We are here to talk about empowering you.”
Prime Minister Marape said ‘Take back PNG’ was all about taking back yourself by going to school, business and agriculture.