Papua New Guinea Agriculture

Endowed with some of the most bountiful fisheries in the world, PNG’s waters have traditionally supplied abundant amounts of protein- and nutrient-rich food for settlements dotting the country’s 17,000 km of coastline. While seafood remains a key staple for many Papua New Guineans’ diets, the presence of highly sought after catches, such as tuna, prawns, lobster and others,...

Palm oil has long been a success story for Papua New Guinea’s agricultural sector, with large plantations providing the bulk of agricultural export revenues and serving as a crucial component of economic diversification efforts to balance out the heavily weighted extractive industry sectors. Established in the 1960s, the original Hoskins and Bialla (now Hargy Oil Palms) oil...

Endowed with a favourable climate, high seasonal rainfall, good quality soil and low-intensity farming methods, the agricultural industry has traditionally been the most consistent contributor to Papua New Guinea’s economy as well as its largest employer. Although export revenues have been outpaced by mineral and energy sales, the...

First introduced over 120 years ago during the era of German colonisation, coffee cultivation and exportation as a cash crop has had a long and successful history in PNG. From its humble beginnings as an export to Australia at the turn of the 20th century, cultivation of the crop has grown over the years to elevate coffee to the second-most-...

Already one of the world’s premier tuna producers, PNG is looking to further capitalise on its rich fisheries sector by boosting downstream capabilities. In its bid to ensconce itself among the global seafood exporting elite, on par with the likes of Thailand or Ecuador, PNG is working to more than double its domestic cannery production. The...

While the local palm oil industry’s increasing maturity over the past decade has been impressive, its linear pattern lags behind the exponential growth seen in other palm oil-producing countries such as Malaysia or Indonesia. This slower but steady pattern is due to the hobbling influence of the complicated land usage and ownership system in PNG....