Imbonggu MP Francis Awesa

Imbonggu’s first successful poultry layer farmer, Resi Kupa has said that people should not wait and expect their MPs and government to do everything for them.

Kupa told of his own egg layer project, which he started in January 2013 in a bush material building with three boxes containing 156 layers.

In 2015, he was assisted with K20,000 by the IDDA enabling the egg farmer to increase his layers to 300 producing between 16 and 18 dozens of eggs each day supply Mendi town and local markets.

Initiated by Imbonggu MP Francis Awesa, the plan is to establish the vegetable depot with proper cool room, storage, marketing and distribution facilities.

Walume government station has been identified as the suitable site of the depot because of its central location as well as road, electricity and other infrastructure connection.

It is ideally situated along the Western and Southern Highlands highway at the junction of Ialibu-Pangia and Mendi-Kagua-Tari roads.

     Major road upgrading work started over a month ago on the Pundia-Limbiale road in one of Imbonggu district’s remotest parts with extremely deteriorated road conditions  due to lack of maintenance since before 2000.

     Local company, Yameno Building Contractors has done exceptionally well to fill stones in muddy filled and badly damaged sections of the road as well as re-gravelling a 10-kilometre section from off the Mt Hagen - Mendi Highway junction towards Pundia primary school.