LOCAL KOMPIAM VILLAGE RAISES 10,000 COFFEE SEEDLINGS

CAPTION: Nursery site at Naliya Ward 11, Ambum LLG of the Kompiam Ambum District

By MORTIME YANGHARRY

NALIYA Ward 11 in the Ambum local level government area of the Kompiam-Ambum District is the location where a total of 10,000 coffee seedlings is being raised and nurtured in a nursery for replanting.

Chairman of the Ambum Coffee Cooperative Society Mr Bill Isak mentioned that a total of 70,000 coffee seedlings have been nurtured and distributed throughout the Upper Ambum area with Naliya village starting with 10,000 coffee seedlings.

He mentioned that Naliya Ward 11 is just located next to the Anditale Secondary School having accessibility to a road, making it possible to transplant matured coffee seedlings for planting accordingly.

Mr Isak is confident of the rehabilitation and renovation of existing coffee gardens in the district, beginning with the distribution of coffee seedlings to all the 21 wards of the Ambum local level government inKompiam Ambum District.

“Every blessing is in the soil. Work the land and be a real man as possessing the land is the beginning of your success,” Mr Isak said.

He sincerely acknowledged the Enga Provincial Government through the Office of the Deputy Provincial Administrator of Economic Services Dr Londari Yamarak for coordinating financial and technical assistance along with Wapenamanda Coffee Exports for the donation of NPK fertilizer bags for the coffee seedlings.

“Kompiam Ambum District will rise up to be a self-reliant and financial independent district not through free political handouts but by working hard on the land,” Mr Isak said.