14. Wonderland Agristock limited
For those who came in late….. This story is about a project to use modern animal husbandry approaches to grow pigs efficiently in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea. The back ground is provided in blog chapters 1-13. This chapter (14) describes the next stage from an experiment near Port Moresby to implementation in Hela province. After we wound up the proof-of-concept part of the program, it took a while to get to the next stage. The plan had always been to base a commercial project in Hela Province and launch a business that would provide jobs for the local people and be profitable. At some point we had to take the program to the Hela. It could never achieve its objectives if it remained in Port Moresby. Our modelling indicated that the program could be profitable. Even better it would contribute of the order of PGK 5000 (~AUD 1,800) per household for the supply of kau kau (sweet potato), caring for the pigs and a maintenance fee for the pig house. Village households have