Half a century of agricultural development in Papua New Guinea: A didiman reflects
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2018
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Bourke, Mike
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Australian Development Studies Centre, The Australian National University
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In May 1970, I flew from Port Moresby to Rabaul, via Lae,
en route to my first posting as a research agronomist
(didiman) in Papua and New Guinea (PNG). Looking from
the aircraft at the tiny villages on both sides of the Owen
Stanley Range, a moment of mild panic arose: What if I did
not get to spend time in such villages? I need not have
worried. Within weeks, I was learning about agriculture
from ToBernard, ToPiritae and others in Napapar Village
and spending time in villages in the Baining Mountains of
New Britain and on New Ireland. Over the next 48 years, I
have worked in villages in all 85 rural districts. By chance,
the most recent fieldwork in mid-2018 has been in Morobe
and Central provinces, not far from those villages that I saw
from the air all those years ago.
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