The Livestock Development Corporation (LDC) has taken charge of Papua New Guinea's lucrative beekeeping industry.
LDC Managing-Director Terry Koim and Executive-Chairman and Department of Agriculture and Livestock Secretary Daniel Kombuk announced this in Goroka on Thursday, September 10, 2020.
They also signed a memorandum-of-understanding with the Eastern Highlands Beekeepers' Association, the largest and most-organised grouping of beekeepers in the country, to progress the industry.
The beekeeping industry has up to now been run on an ad hoc basis by farmers themselves.