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)
The following proposals were completed and submitted to SPC for funding assistance:
- Coconut beetle eradication
- Glassy-winged sharp shooter eradication
- Public awareness/promotion of the biosecurity legislation on all islands
Reporting requirements in respect of Result 3 are completed for this reporting period on on-going funded projects as follows:
- Fruit trees development project
- FAO-funded SSC project for crops and livestock
- FAO-funded small projects
- DSAP-funded project
Current Funded Projects:DSAP The Development of Sustainable Agriculture in the Pacific (DSAP) promotes and implements sustainable agriculture that will improve food production thereby enhancing food security and income generation in the Pacific.
Funded by the European Union the programme commenced in 2003 in the 16 Pacific countries of Fiji, French Polynesia, Tuvalu, Tonga, Vanuatu, Wallis & Futuna, Solomon Islands, Samoa, Kiribati and Papua New Guinea. The other 6 ACP countries are Cook Islands, Niue, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Federated States of Micronesia and Palau.
http://www.spc.int/dsap/about_dsap.htm
In the Cook Islands, DSAP endeavors to promote methodologies that assist farmers, casual planters and home gardeners ways and means of sustainable agriculture to enhance their livelihood through;
- Participatory Rural Assistance(PRA) workshops
- Introduction of new technologies
- Providing information resources
Fruit TreesThe Ministry continues to import fruit trees from New Zealand and Australia for trial purposes in the hope that they can and will adapt to the local climate and environment. Funding from Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) gave the Ministry an opportunity to import a variety exotic fruit plants and seeds known to grow well in tropical climes from Australia’s state of Queensland and citrus plants from New Zealand. These according to the Research division are all in the main doing well. When they are well established, they will be available for distribution to the general public. World Food DayThe Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations celebrates World Food Day each year on 16 October, the day on which the Organization was founded in 1945. The World Food Day and TeleFood theme for 2007 is "The Right to Food".
The right to food is the inherent human right of every woman, man, girl and boy, wherever they live on this planet.
On Rarotonga, this day is usually celebrated on the closes Friday to the date. This is really to accommodate the busy lives of people living on the island.
http://www.fao.org
Another international link for the Ministry is CTA whose regional body IRETA is located on the Samoan USP Alafua campus.
Who we are CTA is an ACP-EU institution working in the field of information for development. We operate under the ACP-EU Cotonou Agreement and our headquarters are in The Netherlands.
When it was set up, in 1984, CTA was given the challenging task of improving the flow of information among stakeholders in agricultural and rural development in African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries.
Our work focuses on three key areas:- providing information products and services (e.g., publications, question-and-answer services and database services)
- promoting the integrated use of communication channels, old and new, to improve the flow of information (e.g., e-communities, web portals, seminars, and study visits)
- building ACP capacity in information and communication management (ICM), mainly through training and partnerships with ACP bodies
- At the core of all our activities are our partnerships with ACP national and regional bodies. We also work with a wide network of ACP-EU public and private sector bodies, as well as international organisations around the world.
http://www.cta.int/about/index.htm |
