Community Based Canneries Are Possible
Community based canneries is being promoted to use fish not wanted by major fish processing plants as well as canning other food like taro and breadfruit. The project is being spearheaded by the ...Read more
Community based canneries is being promoted to use fish not wanted by major fish processing plants as well as canning other food like taro and breadfruit. The project is being spearheaded by the ...Read more
Yesterday afternoon, a pick-up truck parked in front of the CBT Building in Nu’uuli rolled across the street over the side walk and down to the Laufou parking lot hitting two cars parked ...Read more
“If we can’t meet the demand for taro, people will be forced to eat non traditional staples like rice and bread.” This was the warning from Director of Agriculture, Filifaatali ...Read more
Local farmers who attended a meeting with the Department of Agriculture on Friday said they cannot meet the demand for story in the territory. One of the biggest taro farmers on the island ...Read more
The ban on taro from Samoa remains. Director of Agriculture Filifa’atali Mike Fuiava told a House hearing yesterday the Samoa Ministry of Agriculture has still not received test results from ...Read more
The Ministry of Agriculture in Samoa says the weather may have brought about the virus which has hit taro production and led to American Samoa banning imports. The chairman of Samoa’s Farmers ...Read more
Director of Agriculture Filifaatali Mike Fuiava believes there’s sufficient supplies of taro in American Samoa so that the ban on taro imports from Samoa will not create a problem. At a ...Read more
If you can’t find taro at your local supermarket this weekend, it’s because taro shipments from Samoa have been suspended due to unidentified diseases affecting taro crops across the ...Read more
The Department of Agriculture is getting the word out about the reasons for their decision to temporarily stop all locally grown produce for the school lunch program with the exception of taros and ...Read more