Taiwan Technical Mission donates power tiller to PNG UNRE
UNRE Estates & Services Manager Mike Ambrose (second from right) receives the power tiller from Head of Taiwan Missions in PNG, Mr. Chin Yu Lee. Looking on is Dr Caleb Breria (right). AGRICULTURAL training institutions like PNG University of Natural Resources and Environment need to provide training in commercial and large-scale agriculture. Acting Dean of the University’s School of Natural Resources and Head of the Department of Agriculture, Peter Navus, said this earlier this month at the handover ceremony of a power tiller donated by the Taiwan Technical Mission (TTM) in Lae. Mr Navus said until Papua New Guinea develops its commercial agriculture, it cannot compete with the agriculture industry of countries like Australia. He said with this focus in mind, it is important that institutions expose students to the latest agriculture technology; and have agriculture machinery such as the power tiller and others, that students can be taught how to use to increase farm produc