To be self sufficient in food and Livestock production

To be self sufficient in food and Livestock production

Projects and IT
International Links PDF Print E-mail
The following proposals were completed and submitted to FAO for funding assistance:
  • Floriculture Development
  • Young Farmers Development
  • Enhancing Crop Production
  • Value Added – Agriculture & Fisheries
  • Agricultural Mechanisation
  • Pehnryn Snapper Fish Industry Development
  • Relocation of Agricultural Research Station
  • Shelter for Punanganui Market
  • Demonstration Aquafarm
(Note: these were submitted as a package to FAO, which included 2 related to fisheries)
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Institute for Research, Extension and Training in Agriculture (IRETA) PDF Print E-mail

IRETA is one of the 6 institutes of the University of the South Pacific (USP), set up in the early 1980s with NZAID to compliment agricultural development efforts of the South Pacific region. IRETA is located within the USP, Alafua Campus-Samoa, and has maintained strong collaborative relations with the School of Agriculture and national governments of the Pacific-ACP countries. IRETA has also been a long serving Branch Office of the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Co-operation (CTA), Netherlands, for the Pacific region and has worked closely in partnership with several donor agencies and programs, such as USAID-SPRAD, USAID-CAD (Cornwell and University of Hawaii), EU-PRAP, the Commonwealth Secretariat, Republic of China (ROC/Taiwan), Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) and others.

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