[?]l Rice Requirements

[?]robe Could Grow [?]l Rice Requirements

From Our Own Correspondent LAE, September 28. r the end of this year, a rice mill

capable of processing 4,000

of rice per annum should be in ation at the Bubia Agricultural on, in the Markham Valley, nine ; from Lae, NG. modern English Womanco ?r has already been installed the remainder of the equip ; is on its way from Germany, latter machinery includes the iary equipment which returns inhulled rice back to the huller, urther treatment, im this machinery “loonzain” the ideal rice for native con ition, will be produced, el silos are being erected and soon hold the 100-tons of !y-grown rice, which has dy been purchased from ?rs at Erap and Sunshine, rice has been machine har -1 lowing a successful season, ;rs in the Morobe District are :tend their acreage this year, samples of rice sent into Lae both Sunshine (at about feet) and Erap (nearly sea have been most satisfactory, is now believed that enough :an be grown in the Morobe ct within a few years to feed le natives in the Morobe Dis and that, later, the present rice will be superseded by d rice culture. cessful rice growing will need ming co-operation between aistration and growers. Rice lew crop for New Guinea; up recently it was one of the few ries where rice was the diet of native labour and yet tempt was made to grow it.

J -NG Administration, through

}ept. of Agriculture, has to bought all the rice grown in [orobe District.