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19 July 2021 | dataset

Food and Agriculture in Papua New Guinea

Agriculture is the most important activity carried out by the vast majority of Papua New Guineans. For most people, agriculture fills their lives, physically, culturally, economically, socially and nutritionally. Yet agriculture is the most undervalued and misunderstood part of PNG life (see Twenty myths about PNG agriculture, page 1). The reasons for this are partly because mineral and oil exports make PNG comparatively wealthy for a developing
country; partly because agriculture is practised in the countryside, away from towns, and is therefore largely ‘invisible’ to urban people and international visitors; and partly because agriculture is viewed as not being modern’.

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Food and Agriculture in Papua New Guinea

Agriculture is the most important activity…

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Publisher PNG Conservation and Environment Protection Authority, PNG Forestry Authority, PNG Department of National Planning & Monitoring, PNG Department of Agriculture and Livestock, Climate Change and Development Authority in PNG, PNG Oil Palm Industry Corporation, Department of Agriculture and Livestock , PNG Department of Lands and Physical Planning
Modified 11 February 2022
Release Date 19 July 2021
Identifier 2a72075f-91ee-41ec-b60f-c750c49cf562
Spatial / Geographical Coverage Location Papua New Guinea
Relevant Countries Papua New Guinea
License Public
[Open Data]