The Situm-Gobari (SiGo) Cocoa Cooperative nursery was opened on 1 May in Situm.
Supported under the PNG-Australia Governance Partnership, the SiGo Cooperative was given 25,000 seedlings in 2018 to engage men and women in the area to revive cocoa farming as a source of livelihoods and economic growth in the district. Cocoa farming was severely impacted by a cocoa pod borer outbreak in 2017.
The seedlings were supplied by the PNG National Agricultural Research Institute (NARI) in East New Britain to enable seedling tilling in the newly constructed nursery.
