Ban on Taro from Samoa Remains
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 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
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
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
A number of students at the American Samoa Community College (ASCC) will gain firsthand experience in agriculture and related fields here in the territory as well as Samoa, Hawaii, Pohnpei and ...Read more
The Department of Agriculture has temporarily suspended the importation of all taro and taro shoots from Samoa effective immediately. Director of Agriculture Filifaatali Mike Fuiava said in a ...Read more
On Saturday the road to Fagamalo was temporarily opened for the first time since one of the biggest landslides in recent history covered the road with mud, boulders, trees and debris at Malota on ...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
Today’s cabinet meeting was the last with department and agency directors who served in the first four year term of the Lolo Lemanu Government. All of the directors have submitted their ...Read more
A businessman who imported a shipment of watermelons from Tonga last week can’t understand why the Department of Agriculture refused to inspect and release his watermelons at a location ...Read more