| ID: | 75486 |
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| Country: | Fiji |
| Title: | Fiji - Pacific Islands Rural and Agriculture Stimulus Facility (PIRAS) - July 2022 |
| Description: |
Filipe Baituwawa is a 30-year-old youth farmer from the village of Wema in the province of Navosa. Before the lockdown, he was planting kava and banana in his mother village located in Sawene. During the COVID-19 lockdown, life in the highlands was not easy, the price of food items went up and members of the community had no other choice cultivate more crops for home consumption. Through PIRAS, farmers like Filipe in the rural highlands of Navosa were assisted with vegetable seeds, manure, community nurseries sand fencing that will assist him to supply fresh vegetables with high nutrition value for both home consumption and market. Representing the community facilitator from his village, Filipe attended training facilitated by Partners in Community Development Fiji (PCDF) that covered topics on post-harvest handling and farm management. The absence of appropriate infrastructure, labor resources, poor harvesting practices, and handling is an issue for farmers in the Sigatoka highlands. PIRAS aims to promote safe food handling, preservation, and distribution to eliminate losses and accelerate recovery from the COVID-19 crisis |
| Size: | 17.85 MB; 6579 x 4386 pixels; 557 x 371 mm (print at 300 DPI); 1741 x 1160 mm (screen at 96 DPI); |
| Show more details: | Laisiasa Dave |
| Copyright: | ©IFAD/Laisiasa Dave/Pacific Farmer Organizations |
| Categories: | none |
| URL: | www.ifad.org |
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