A leading researcher on Papua New Guinea Affairs has called on the country's government to commit to relaxing on special agricultural leases which critics call as land grabs.
A recent report from OXFAM exposed the extent of the involvement of Australia's big four banks in the leases of rainforests for palm oil plantations and over logging operations. Prime minister Peter O'Neil has announced, government plans to cancel the leases. But Fredric Musso, the PNG policy director at Auckland institute said the government has been procrastinating over the issue and should get on with cancelling the leases and returning the land to the people. "The scale of logging in Papua New Guinea is used at the moment and its read it out here and reported because we are talking about 5 million hectares with this SABC schemes but you have also anther 8 million hectares which are being given away previously with logging schemes"" Comments are closed.
|
Papua New Guinea Breaking NewsPapua New Guinea daily News updates Let Your Voice be heard: Submit your news articles, commentaries, letters , Photos, Media Releases etc to us on this email: pngfacts@gmail.com
Mining & PetroleumTop Links |