Fresh fruit and vegetable marketing

Abstract

In 1970/71 imports of fruit and vegetables into Papua New Guinea amounted to $3,580,000. Over a million dollars worth of these were fresh foods, the rest being mainly canned or frozen.

DASF economists have been studying the fresh fruit and vegetable situation for some time. They have looked very carefully at the present markets and the quantities of goods being traded there and they have considered ways by which locally produced vegetables can replace imported vegetables sold in shops.