Ilimo Dairy Farm

Milk in School program with the generous support of Kina Bank will continue until the end of the fourth term at the cost of K100,000.

The program, which was launched last month at Nonu Independent Primary School, continues to give out frozen milk stiks and other milk products such as Ilimo joy milk, joy juice and joy water.

Nonu Independent Primary School is a private school, which has classes from Elementary prep to Grade 8.

The staff visited the farm following an invite from the Ilimo Farm Business Development Manager, Galit Tamir.

Speaking during the tour, Tamir said: “Ilimo farm is up to standards that are used in Israel, the equipment, the shades, the feeds and the facility itself is like a five star hotel for the cows.”

The firm was accredited the Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP) certification by the PNG National Institute of Standards and Industrial Technology (NISIT) in an official presentation in Port Moresby on December 16^th. 

HACCP standard reflects a management system in which food safety is addressed through the analysis and control of biological, chemical and physical hazards from raw material production, procurement and handling, to manufacturing, distribution and consumption of the finished product.

Ilimo launched their product with the opening of a new ice-cream shop on the afternoon of December 10^th outside the Vision City Mall.

The new Ilimo (ice-cream) Park offers a range of flavours, soft ice cream, milk shakes and slushies which are, most importantly, all made from the locally produced Ilimo Fresh Milk.

Governor Agarobe said this has been in their sights for some time.

“Since we have established Ilimo Dairy (Farm) we’ve never had an official board meeting yet, or a shareholders meeting as yet. That’s been on the radar. We are going to be calling a shareholders meeting shortly, as part of our prep work moving into next year.

“As yet really we have not collected any dividends from them and I guess those are discussions we will have at the shareholder meeting,” said the Governor.

Operators Innovative Agro Industry PNG Ltd have been delivering sustainable agriculture projects throughout Papua New Guinea.

Recently, Member for Kairuku-Hiri and Shadow Minister for Lands, Peter Isoaimo, visited the world-class Ilimo Dairy Farm.

Ilimo Dairy is partly owned by the people of Central Province, given that the provincial government sits in the Kairiku-Hiri District of Central Province.