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Prime Minister  James Marape has given his support to development of the oil palm industry in Papua New Guinea on a massive scale. PM Marape gave his support after he and East Sepik Governor,  Allan Bird, met with representatives of Pacific Elite Palm Oil Group in Singapore on Monday (November 21, 2022). The company currently runs an oil palm project in East Sepik, which it wants to emulate in all provinces, saying that it will be an economic gamechanger for the whole country. The company aims to create the largest agriculture-based wealth in the South Pacific, as well as generate electricity for PNG, using oil palm. Governor Bird told PM Marape that if a long-term oil palm development plan was drawn up, with the aim of economic independence for PNG, one million hectares of oil palm grown all over PNG would bring in an extra K100 billion for the country. “We can double our GDP just from palm oil,” he said. “If we go into downstream processing, this K100 billion could double, so that we

The advent and sudden boom of social media in our lives have been nothing short of amazing, and its influence on our lives is something that should be taken very seriously. You’d be hard-pressed to find someone who doesn’t have an active presence in one form of social media or the other, and it takes up a significant portion of most people’s daily routines.    If you can successfully leverage this space to market your products and services to casual social media users, you can reach a massive number of people in an unprecedented amount of time that other forms of marketing would struggle to replicate. This potential reach and opportunity to market your company’s culture and personality makes Social Media marketing one of the most promising avenues to consider in the current times.   However, social media is as unpredictable as it is diverse and large, which makes marketing successfully on such platforms a much trickier job than one might be used to. Every action can have unforeseen con