Complaint > Smallholder Agriculture Development Project

Compliance Report: 62-Investigation Report (English)

...Cash Economy 108. The transition from a subsistence economy to a market economy is one of the key development challenges for the whole country, and is very much the context of the SADP. 109. Some observers believe that subsistence agriculture underpins the Papua New Guinea cash economy. They maintain that even though the production and sale of cash crops is an important source of income at both the national and household levels, cash crops should not 124 PAD, p. 18. 1...

Complaint > Smallholder Agriculture Development Project

Filing: 62-Request for Inspection (English)

...cash crop which no rich industria!lsed nation In the worid wants to have In Its own backyard. It is obvious that rich nations are merely pushing 011 palm growing In countries like PNG because It Is a labour Intensive, nutrient hungry and polluting crop, so that their Industry can have access to cheap palm 011. • 011 palm Increases balance of payments problem for PNG: Growers become too rellanl upon a monocultural cash crop. What 1$ left of their hard earned cash Income from oU...