Moving forward with its mission to support and empower rural families and communities in the Greater Sepik Region who live on cocoa, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), under the EU Funded UN Joint STREIT PNG Programme and in partnership with PNG Cocoa Board and East Sepik and Sandaun Provincial Divisions of Agriculture and Livestock, provided technical assistance to 1705 rural farmers from five Local Level Governments (LLGs) with tailored trainings on cocoa rehabilitation and cocoa block management.

The participants including a good representation from interested women and youths from very remote villages in Ambunti and North Wosera LLGs in East Sepik, and Green River, Walsa and Amanab LLGs in Sandaun Province, received intensive training courses as Trainers-of-Trainers, enabled to impart the acquired knowledge and skills to further number of fellow farmers in rural communities.