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The PNG  Independent Consumer and Competition Commission (ICCC) is in the process of conducting a review of the prices of rice in the country. ICCC Commissioner Paulus Ain in an interview with NBC News says rice products are the main food that most Papua New Guineans consume daily. However, Mr. Ain says the commission is only monitoring the prices of rice and not controlling it. The 2022 Rice Industry Pricing Review outlined that the price increases were driven by costs increases in international shipping, blending, the need to source from higher priced markets to avoid shipping delays and congestion, and higher ports and wharfing costs. However, Mr. Ain explains that rice product is experiencing some stability, and he says the country should expect stability or a decline in the prices by the end of this year or early next year. Meantime, NBC News observed some major shops in Port Moresby are selling popular rice brands at K30 to K40 for 10kg bags of rice.     NBC News / PNG Today Next

How to Hedera colchica ‘Sulphur Heart’ WANT TO BUY HARDY, EXOTIC PLANT SEEDS? THEN CLICK HERE FOR THE ‘SEEDS OF EADEN’ SEED SHOP There are a number of excellent, large-leaved ornamental ivy’s available for garden use, but Hedera colchica ‘Sulphur Heart’ is arguably one of the best. In fact it is my cultivar of choice of all hedera species and cultivars. The original species is native to the Near and Middle East, hence its common name of ‘Persian Ivy’. However the ‘Sulphur Heart’ cultivar has several other pseudonyms (including ‘Gold Leaf and ‘Paddy’s Pride’) which can be a little misleading when purchasing stock. It is a woody, evergreen climbing shrub, with large ovate leaves 20 cm in length which are marked by an irregular central splash of yellow, merging into pale-green and finally deep-green. In the spring the young growth is covered in a yellow down. Insignificant yellow-green flowers appear from October to November, which are usually followed by clusters of small, black berries.

Lets first discuss how money evolved through this meaningful timeline infographics on origins of money . If I ask you how old is human history, you will never be able to give an exact date and time because the span of recorded human history is roughly 5,000 years i.e. 30th Century BC. 1.12 1.11 1.10 1.9 1.8 1.7 1.6 1.5 1.4 1.3 1.2 1.1 1 Humans living during Old Stone Age were mostly hunters and nomads with no system of writing or accounting (ledger recording). Their sole purpose of life was survival through hunting, gathering food, fishing or scavenge wild animals. Since there was no medium of exchange (money) people would rather exchange ( barter economy ) one product for another near 9000 BC. A hunter would give another hunter meat, stone axe or leather for an exchange with a good of equal importance in value. Thus exchanging food for food , tool for tool and clothing for clothing . Barter trade was a real goods exchange system with perfect transparency and no residual ef