Distribution of local food

Melsisi FSAC Team provides local food and planting materials to Central Pentecost

The distributions have been ongoing since April 19, 2020 after the Emergency Operation Centre was activated.

Reports received from the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (DARD) officers on the ground said local food supplies and planting materials were sourced from the demonstration plot located at Sara, North Pentecost.

Over 6,000 sweet potato (kumala) cuttings, over 100 island cabbage branches and 100-plus hybrid cassava plants were harvested with tubers weighing approximately 792 kilos.