Rice-growing recommendations

Abstract

In recent years rice consumption in Papua New Guinea has increased greatly and now is equivalent to 90 000 tonnes of paddy rice per
year. Consumption per head in 1971-72 was 35 kg. Little of this is produced locally although rice was first introduced by missionaries and
plantations at the turn of the century. The Sepik provinces produce most of the locally grown rice while there is some production in the Central and Madang provinces, and other provinces.