Food, Agriculture, and Fisheries including women in agriculture are some issues being discussed this week by senior officials from the 22 APEC countries, during the third Senior Officials Meeting.
In PNG, rice is one of those introduced staple food that many have come to love.
Annually PNG imports 400,000 tones of rice, spending up to K600 million.
And Minister for Agriculture and Livestock Benny Allan says the country cannot continue to import rice with government’s aim of supplying locally own rice by 2025.
