Saws for sago in Papua New Guinea

Abstract

The Bogia district of Madang province is one of the poorer parts of lowland Papua New Guinea. The nutrition of the people is poor, health is bad (with a lot of leprosy) and even primary education reaches only a small proportion of the rural population.
This article looks at the importance of sago (Metroxylon spp.) and of a new way of chopping it, in a group of eight villages.