Kairuku-Hiri rice project

Kairuku rice project will continue, assures Tomscoll

The project, at the moment, has gone back to a government rice committee to negotiate issues of allocations of the import quota.

The meeting was held last week and Tomscoll is yet to be briefed on the outcome.

Tomscoll said there are many issues that they’ll have to consider before the project can commence operations.

The project is subject to all social mapping, land marking and identifications of landowners.

“We cannot just let companies walk in without social mapping, identifying who the landowners are and sorting out the beneficiaries of the project.