Asaro Valley

Asaro mudmen unhappy with copycats

They expressed their frustrations in Komunive Village in the Asaro Valley of Eastern Highlands, in the presence of Tourism Arts and Culture Minister, Emil Tammur, Tourism Promotion Authority CEO, Jerry Agus and Eastern Highlands Deputy Governor Eastern Highlands, John Mipo.

​Operation ‘rausim haus kunai’ begins for farmers

Philip Timbe of Hatavile Coffee, a lead partner of Coffee Industry Corporation’s Productive Partnerships in Agriculture Project (CIC-PPAP), issued this challenge to his 400 farmers under the partnership who gathered to collect their basic coffee gardening tools at Wantrifu Village on 9 September.

“Operation rausim haus kunai has commenced as of today. By 2020 everyone must own a permanent house.

“If not, I will walk into the haus lain with a box of matches to burn down all haus kunai.”