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Case study: Ramu Agri Industries

1 May 2011 by 16 Comments
Sugar, beef and oil palm are the three platforms on which Papua New Guinea agricultural company, Ramu Agri Industries (RAI) is based. Expansion is planned for all three, following the company’s September 2008 acquisition by New Britain Palm Oil Limited (NBPOL). Ramu Agri Industries’ General Manager Jamie Graham says RAI’s broad strategy is to ‘continue […]
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Spotlight: The sweet taste of success

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Australian chocolatier Dean Morgan of Zokoko is one of an increasing number of gourmet chocolate makers discovering that the fine cocoa flavour of Papua New Guinean cocoa makes excellent gourmet chocolate. Dean Morgan’s search for PNG cocoa started with a call to Pacific Islands Trade and Invest to source coffee beans for his coffee roasting […]
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The inside view: Alan McLay

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Lae Chamber of Commerce and Industry President Alan McLay provides a personal view of Papua New Guinea’s agricultural potential. While mineral and gas production are travelling very well at the moment, it has long been realised that agriculture is the real future of Papua New Guinea. Before mining, agriculture provided PNG’s economic backbone, initially with […]
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Spotlight: Making the most of the beans

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Robert Hamilton-Jones talks to one of the founders of Jasper Coffee, which roasts and packages gourmet Papua New Guinean coffee. About three years ago, I stumbled upon an attractively packaged coffee in my local deli in Geelong, Australia. It was of PNG origin, although it was actually roasted and packaged in Australia by Jasper Coffee. […]
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Selling PNG’s produce to the world

1 May 2011 by 2 Comments
Papua New Guinea’s produce and products continue to find new markets overseas. Currently, the vast bulk of PNG’s exports are raw or part-processed commodities such as coffee, cocoa, palm oil and timber, although there is an increased emphasis on value-adding prior to export. The way to market differs depending on the produce. Commodity exports PNG […]
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Mainland Holdings: A diversified business with bite

1 May 2009 by 10 Comments
One of Papua New Guinea’s more colourful enterprises, Mainland Holdings, operates the world’s largest saltwater crocodile farm. But, as Business Advantage discovered on a recent visit to its Lae base, that is just one business unit in a rapidly-increasing portfolio. Looking at Mainland Holdings today, it’s hard to believe that this company began as a […]
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An appetite for growth

1 May 2008 by Leave a Comment
Papua New Guinea food producer Trukai Industries (‘trukai’ means ‘good food’ in tok pisin) achieved a notable breakthrough at the end of 2007 when it began exporting long-grain rice to drought-stricken Australia, in spite of the fact that PNG grows little rice of its own. The raw material is imported from Thailand then processed in […]
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