Rural Development Administration meets with Papua New Guinea’s Ministry of Agriculture

The Rural Development Administration of Korea is collaborating with Papua New Guinea's Minister of Agriculture, John Boito, to enhance rice productivity and self-sufficiency in Papua New Guinea by applying Korea's advanced rice breeding and cultivation technologies. This initiative focuses on a rice cultivation complex in the Eastern Highlands Province and aims to address food issues in the region. The administration also plans to extend similar agricultural technology cooperation to other Pacific island countries.

The Rural Development Administration announced that on October 30, it discussed agricultural technology cooperation with the Papua New Guinean Minister of Agriculture John Boito and his delegation at the Rural Development Administration in Jeonju, Jeollabuk-do, to solve the food problem in Papua New Guinea. The Papua New Guinean delegation consisted of seven people, including Minister Boito. Papua New Guinea is currently promoting a rice cultivation complex in the Obura Warenara region of the Eastern Highlands Province. Minister Boito said, “I hope that Korea’s green revolution experience and technology that has achieved food self-sufficiency will help increase rice productivity in Papua New Guinea,” and “I hope that advanced rice breeding and cultivation technologies can be applied to the rice cultivation complex in the Eastern Highlands Province under the cooperation of the Rural Development Administration.” Since the first meeting with Papua New Guinea in December of last ...