Support to Rural Entrepreneurship, Investment and Trade in Papua New Guinea (EU-STREIT PNG)

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Two young vanilla farmers in Papua New Guinea

Vanilla Value Chain 

The northwestern part of Papua New Guinea has a unique agro-ecological environment with a great potential to cultivate many globally in-demand valuable and expensive agricultural economic products such as vanilla. If produced, processed, and marketed in enough quantity and with the best quality, vanilla as the world’s second most expensive spice can contribute significantly to the country’s economy.
Despite this huge potentiality, vanilla is mainly planted at the household, subsistence level on small plots, and farmers are not well equipped with knowledge on improved production practices and proper drying and quality attributes.
Besides, insufficient investment, support, capacity, and infrastructures left the region less prepared and provided with resources to tap into this potentiality and take the course toward sustainable vanilla value chain development.

Adopted Approach

To address these gaps and support triggering a transformational, durable change, the EU-STREIT PNG, in close partnership with the East and West Sepik Provincial Divisions of Agriculture and Livestock (DAL), stakeholders and local farmer groups, provides support and offers technical assistance to the vanilla farmers, agripreneurs and local Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprise (MSMEs) as well as governmental authorities to increase the economic returns and opportunities through sustainable development of this value chain.
In this respect, the Programme provides support to increase profitability of farmers producing vanilla in the Programme's targeted areas, works on increasing number of people and enterprises engaging in and benefiting from improved vanilla value chain development, and ensuring women and youth involvement in decision-making process with increased income from vanilla value chain activities.
As part of this inclusive approach, the Programme supports on  improving existing vanilla blocks for farm families in the Programme implementation's areas, promoting sustainable and improved climate-change adapted practices, developing and promoting improved drying, curing, packaging and storage of vanilla beans, enhancing market access and linkages of value chain actors at provincial, national and international levels, strengthening women and youth engagement in and benefitting from vanilla value chain activities, and strengthening the capacity for adaptive collaborative research and vanilla demonstration facilities of regional technical institutions.

Video
EU-STREIT PNG Innovations in the Sepik Provinces
27/01/2025

Innovation is a key driver of the work of EU-STREIT PNG Program along the cocoa, vanilla and fisheries value chains. To learn more on the innovations...

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EU-STREIT PNG Programme Contributes to PNG Mid-Term Development Plan IV: Programme Coordinator Explains
15/12/2024

The Programme Coordinator of the 5-year EU-STREIT PNG Programme in the Sepik region, Mr Ali Said Yesuf explains that the Programme has contributed to...

Vanilla farmers exchanges points on their achievements and future plans to develop their agribusinesses
Latest news
FAO Boosts Vanilla Farmers’ Association in Papua New Guinea, Propelling Future Growth Through Peer-to-Peer Knowledge Exchange
31/01/2025

Farmers and agripreneurs from East and West Sepik of Papua New Guinea united in a peer-learning event to refine cultivation methods, boost market opportunities,...

4th Consultation Workshop for developing the PNG National Spice Policy
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EU-STREIT PNG Programme Drives Development of Papua New Guinea’s National Spice Policy
19/12/2024

The EU-STREIT PNG Programme has successfully facilitated nationwide consultations to advance Papua New Guinea's first comprehensive National Spice Policy...

Innovation Briefs - Innovative Vanilla Solar Dryer
Publications
Innovation Briefs - Innovative Vanilla Solar Dryer
08/2024

Technical briefs on Innovative Vanilla SOlar Dryer introduced by the EU-STREIT PNG Programme, outlining its objectives, features, functionality, design,...

Bi-Monthly updates on the major supports delivered and activities implemented by the EU-STREIT PNG Programme in January & February 2024.
EU-STREIT PNG's Bi-Monthly Updates, January & February 2024
03/2024

Bi-Monthly updates on the major supports delivered and activities implemented by the EU-STREIT PNG Programme in January & February 2024.