By BENNY GETENG
ALL logging and timber licences will be given to
traditional landowners that have trees ready to be harvested for logging
activities.
This is the stern message from Prime Minister James Marape
who said by 2020 all-round log exports will cease and timber licences will be
given to only landowners and not outside people or companies.
He said this to support the new government’s stance
on adding value for resource owners and landowners must have money in their
pockets.
He said this new shift of policy will also apply to
the fisheries sector where all fish caught will be brought back into centres of
the country and processed in fish factories.
“ Kisim olgeta fish na karim kam processim lo Lae na
ol narapela fish centres,” he said ( Bring all the fish caught back and be
processed in Lae and other coastal marine provinces.)
PM Marape said these centres include Lae, Madang,
Manus, Kimbe, Wewak and Rabaul that fish factories will be built to cater for
the fisheries downstream processing.
He said by 2025 all these will be processed locally
and exported so that the money from these resources are retained for the people
to benefit meaningfully.
He said funds to will be kept aside for all local
thriving entrepreneurs to secure and make business with a new comprehensive SME
Policy to support local business as well.
“With the way state of the economy is at the moment,
I can’t say much right now, but we will work on a business program for the business
men and women with an amount of funding that will be given to support the
program as well,” he said.
“Focus will be on the local SME sector in PNG,” he
said.
PM Marape said the options are open for anyone in
PNG to go into business whether it be cocoa, copra, timber, coffee or even
agriculture sector respectively.
He said the aim of taking back PNG is to get the
money from the land and sea and put it back to the people to be productive in
business or other economic activities to sustain and improve their livelihood.
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