PNG farmers want permanent oil palm board
Updated
Oil palm growers in Papua New Guinea want a permanent board to the Oil Palm Industry Corporation to oversee operations.
The Post Courier reports that farmers want to know how proposed World Bank funding aimed at assisting small growers in Oro and West New Britain provinces will be used.
They say that in the absence of an implementing body, the Corporation has been run by an acting secretary-general since 2005.
The report says the 20,000 growers want the corporation to explain itself, and say they are owed more information because they pay fees to the corporation from each harvest.
