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| Galip Nuts of Nagovis (Picture by Melvin Wilolopa) |
By Aloysius Laukai
Source: New Dawn FM
Date: 13 & 14 June 2011
Links: 1 & 2
The famous galip nut could become a major revenue earner for locals if current studies become a reality.
In making this known to New Dawn FM today, a research associate with PNG NUT DEVELOPMENT Project at the National Agriculture Research Institute, GODFREY HANNET said that the Galip nut could become one good revenue earner for villagers throughout Papua New Guinea.
He said that since research on the nut started in 2006 results have shown a lot of positive results for the nut.
MR. HANNET said that the European Union Funded project has successfully come up in making Galip nut a good shade tree for Cocoa trees.
He said the nuts are only grown in Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu and is growing demand for food, Medicine and also for its organic content.
MR. HANNET says that by products would be Soap, Oil, Fertilizer,Perfume and other products.
He said that main products would be Salted Galip, Chocolate coated Galip and Galip Biscuits.
When the people of Bougainville are realizing the real effects of the Cocoa Pod Borer news of Galip nut becoming a new cash crop industry for the region is reliving.
New Dawn FM this morning talked to one of the Associate researchers at the PNG NUT DEVELOPMENT Project on how the people of Bougainville can benefit from this new development.
MR. GODFREY HANNET told New Dawn FM that they were currently collecting samples of nuts from Nissan, Saposa, Torokina and Buka island and the mainland Bougainville to find the best and high yielding nut that could be cloned for distribution to interested farmers.
He said that the National Agriculture Research Institute is setting up a processing plant to process the nuts for market.
MR. HANNET says that firstly they are looking at the local market but later they would be exporting to overseas markets.
He said that Galip or Canarium indicum is indigenous to Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu where it grows in the wet lowland forests.
MR. HANETT said that when the buying of nuts commences, they would be buying any species and later would develop farms with special cloned and identified species.
Many Cocoa and Copra Export companies have already shown interest in paying for these nuts at their cocoa and copra buying points.
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