Country Profile - Papua New Guinea

 

 

 

 

Researchers

Category

Supervising agency

Executing agency

Research focus

Head count

FTEs

Year

Government

Department of Agriculture and Livestock

National Agricultural Research Institute (NARI)

Diverse

37

37.0 

 

2002

 

 

Papua New Guinea Forestry Research Institute (PNGFRI)

 Forestry

28 

 28.0

2002 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nonprofit

Oil Palm Industry Corporation

Oil Palm Research Association (OPRA)

Oil palm

13.2

13.2 

2002

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cocoa Board, Copra Marketing Board

Cocoa and Coconut Research Institute (CCRI)

Cocoa, coconut

18

18.0 

2002

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Coffee Industry Corporation

Coffee Research Institute (CRI)

Coffee

7

7.0 

2002

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Private

Ramu Sugar Ltd.

Sugarcane Research Centre

Sugar

5

5.0 

2002

 

Trukai Industries Limited

 Agronomy Section

 rice, peanuts, tropical pastures, livestock

3.0 

2002 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Higher Education

PNG University of Technology

Department of Agriculture

Diverse

11

3.3 

2002

 

 

Department of Forestry

Forestry

7

2.1 

2002

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • ASTI Country brief on Papua New Guinea, 2005 (PDF 273K)