Hydroponic Farms Helping Combat NCDs
Ten new farmers are being trained in three different systems of hydroponics under a project that is intended to get more families eating nutritious vegetables , thereby reducing non communicable ...Read more
Ten new farmers are being trained in three different systems of hydroponics under a project that is intended to get more families eating nutritious vegetables , thereby reducing non communicable ...Read more
Last Friday was the deadline for bidding to supply vegetables for the School Lunch Program (SLP) according to the SLP Assistant Director, Christine Fualaau. Fualaau says they have received approval ...Read more
Director of Health Motusa Tuileama Nua says the Department of Agriculture and landowners are to be blamed for the current problems with Asian vegetable farms. He believes the Department of ...Read more
A meeting of vegetable farmers called by Acting Director of Agriculture Tapaau Dr Dan Aga for this afternoon is to explain the procedures that farmers have to meet in order to be certified to ...Read more
Director of Health Motusa Tuileama Nua has been appointed to lead the group of government departments that are inspecting farms for the presence of illegal pesticides and chemicals, and not ...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
Following on the heels of the Department of Agriculture’s decision to suspend the supply of all locally grown vegetables except those grown hydroponically for the School Lunch Program, and the ...Read more
Businesswoman and supplier of locally grown vegetables for the School Lunch Program, Helen Young, has reason to believe that she’s being discriminated against by the Department of ...Read more
The Department of Agriculture is suspending until further notice locally grown vegetables for the School Lunch Program except for hydroponically grown vegetables, as well as local taro, green and ...Read more
Director of Agriculture Lealao Mel Purcell has not given up on efforts to revert the supply of local produce for the Department of Education’s School Lunch Program to the way it was. That is, ...Read more