Results for Agriculture

In a world that has 1.6 billion people who are overweight, the biggest challenge to mobilizing action against hunger is that hunger is becoming invisible in places, "and in a world exploding with prosperity and possibility we have become morally bankrupt, we have lost the sense of compassion. . .," UN Messenger of Peace HRH Princess Haya Al Hussein said this weekend, appealing to leaders who can make a difference for the rural poor. - By Mary Lyn Fonua

Kumala noodles, duck raising, mushrooms-growing and methane-generating pits are projects that Tonga will see under a new TOP$1.6m China technical grant.

Tonga expects to start exporting more vegetables to New Zealand in September, including chilli pepper and eggplants to be followed by fruits such as watermelon, pawpaw and mangoes in season.

Tonga's Squash Industry is targeting to export a total of 1,600 tonnes of squash to Japan and South Korea, a decrease from the 2,400 tonnes exported last year.

Tonga's first 50 group of seasonal workers departed Fua'amotu International Airport for Sydney this morning, the first to be recruited from the Pacific under the Pacific Seasonal Pilot Workers scheme to Australia for seven months.

Eight hundred Tongan Seasonal Workers will leave Tonga to work in the Australian horticultural industry in July 2009.

A group of 63 Tongan seasonal workers will leave for New Zealand on February 11, the 16th group to join the RSE scheme.

Orange Princess, a new variety of squash that the Global Trading Company Exporters Ltd. will export to South Korea for the first time this month, could rescue Tonga's struggling Squash Industry.

The Ministry of Agriculture is stepping into the Squash Industry for the first time this year, as one of the growers, in order to boost declining squash production.