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The Papua New Guinea Government will impose a blanket ban on the importation of frozen chickens into the country to protect the Billion-Kina local poultry industry.  PNG’s Agriculture Minister Aiye Tambua announced, that the ban will take effect at the end of this month.  He says protecting the poultry industry from imported diseases is the main reason for the decision. Agriculture Minister Aiye Tambua has announced the implementation of advice from the National Agriculture Quarantine Authority to ban the importation of all frozen chickens into the country.  It will take effect at the end of this month, but will not affect orders placed before the ban date.  The Agriculture Minister making the official announcement before the media says protecting the Billion Kina Local Poultry Industry is important.    The Member for Goroka further says the decision is not a bottleneck approach but to safeguard the poultry in the long run.  Meantime, PNG  imports nearly, K200 million worth of fro...

We were surprised how good (small but good!) the Novi Sad vegan scene was! There are currently three properly vegan restaurants, many pekaras (bakeries) with posno (basically vegan, see below) pastries, wonderful farmers’ markets (we managed to identify three), many many mikromarkets (greengrocers’) everywhere, organic food shops (Zdrava Hrana) and supermarkets with decent produce and all the other stuff usually need (esp. powdered flax seed). Novi Sad was the first Serbian city we stayed in for more than a couple of nights. We weren’t sure we would actually arrive: our original goal was Belgrade, which had been our goal for at least two years: to simply be able to revisit there after lockdown, from one Eastern European capital (Budapest) to another. Actually, once, in the midst of the pandemic in 2020, around December in locked-down Budapest, having failed to get over the border via bus (which had all stopped), we caved and bought flight tickets to Belgrade – we...

  Its is now October and autumn is upon us. So this with the cooler night temperatures and lower light temperatures out exotic cold-hardy tropical effect plants are starting to run out of steam. Dahlias are getting leggy, canna lilies are losing the intensity of leaf colour and the hostas are beginning to die back in preparation for winter. However, this slow decline can be halted, albeit superficially by dead-heading flowering specimens, keeping weeds at bay and supporting those plants that are now beginning to struggle under their own weight. Autumn maintenance will also push into winter preparations so watch English horticulturist walk round his garden and discuss the up and coming jobs that will need to be done in a timely fashion to ensure great displays next year. If you would like to see more content like this then don’t forget to click onto the ‘LIKE’, ‘SUBSCRIBE’ and ‘NOTIFICATION’ buttons. Furthermore we would love to hear from you so ...