The summary of the Ebuta PNG AgriFarm (EPNGAF) livestock operations is structured across three stages: its current footing, its ambitious commercial upgrade plan, and the resulting broad outcomes for local communities, the country, and international markets.

I. Current Stage: Foundational Operations and Organic Production

EPNGAF currently operates as a commercial entity in the farming and agriculture sector, focusing on integrated and organic production methods.
Current Inventory and Products
EPNGAF produces a variety of livestock, milk, milk products, eggs, and engages in beekeeping. Current organic outputs include:

• Meat and Livestock: Fresh Goat Meat, Awesome Turkey, Premium Beef, Gooses & Rosters, and Live Pigs and Pork meats. They also sell live animals per kilo.

• Dairy and Eggs: Quality Milk and Cheese from Cow and Goats, Elite Duck’s Eggs, and Goat Chesse.

• Specialties: Rainbow Trout.
Operational Methods
The farm uses a principle of integration of farming operations and employs the native technique to grow and feed their livestock.

• Eco-Farming: Crop remains feed animals, manure from cattle and poultry constitutes farmyard manure to maintain soil fertility, and pig droppings are used to provide biogas. Animal wastes are converted into fertilizer and composted for feeds, vegetables, fish feed, and fruit growing.

• Biosecurity: EPNGAF enforces strict policies and processes for employees and visitors, such as sanitization, full body cover, and the prohibition of food or drink inside the Pig Shed, to keep pigs healthy and safe from diseases like African Swine Flu.

II. Improvement Stage: Commercial Upgrade and Importing Superior Genetics

The farm is currently in an improvement state, seeking support funds to upgrade to a full commercial standard within 12 months. This requires a funding of few millions.
Strategic Expansion Targets
The expansion plan involves populating their 200 hectares of land with large quantities of improved animals:

• Pigs, Poultry, and Fish: 100 pigs, 3,000 chickens, 500 turkeys, 100 ducks, 50 Queen Bees, and 5,000 Rainbow trout fingerlings.

• Cattle and Goats: 50 cows, 200 Meat goats, and 50 Milking Goats.
Animal Import Program
EPNGAF plans to import superior breeds that are not available in PNG, leveraging the experience of Farm Manager James Yalo from North Queensland, Australia.

The planned imports include:

• Meat Goats: Boar, Canaan and Red Kalahari Goats.

• Milking Goats: Saanen Goats (also used for meat).

• Red Kalahari and Boar Goats: Red Kalahari and Boar Goats are best meat in tha market. The best meat demand in Middle east countries and even PNG need Goat Meats.

• Poultry: Guineafowls and Turkeys for meat and egg production. Infrastructure and Processing Development Crucial investments are dedicated to industrializing operations:

• Piggery: Constructing a 1000 Place Fully Slatted Ventilated Finishing Piggery Shed (Nominally 16.28m x 48.42m), complete with automatic feeding/watering and waste management systems.

• Electrification: Implementing a Mini-Hydro system (200KW), a Solar system setup (16KW), and a Standby generator (35KVA) to ensure consistent power for the entire farm, processing, and storage areas.

• Processing: Installing a Cool Room and Freezer system for all meat productions.

III. Downstream Process and Benefits

Summary:

The EPNGAF Livestock Farm’s downstream process involves value-adding activities that transform raw agricultural products into marketable goods, creating additional revenue streams. By enhancing the quality and diversity of products, EPNGAF contributes to the economic development of communities, neighbors, districts, provinces, and the country as a whole. These downstream activities not only boost local economies but also promote self-sufficiency by reducing dependence on imports and fostering agriculture-based livelihoods. Furthermore, through exports to overseas markets, EPNGAF showcases the quality of Papua New Guinean agriculture on a global scale, opening up new opportunities for growth and international trade. Overall, the downstream process initiated by EPNGAF Livestock Farm brings about multifaceted benefits that trickle down to various stakeholders, catalyzing sustainable development and prosperity.

Details:

The outcome of the commercial upgrade is designed to generate significant economic and social benefits, addressing food security and economic growth from the local level up to the international market.
Benefits to Local Communities and Provinces

• Economic Empowerment: The farm will generate income and employment opportunities and aims To solve poverty and unemployment issues in Papua New Guinea. It provides local benefits such as employments, healthy food, family and community based obligations, cash flow, and support to schools and churches.

• Social Stability: Utilizing unused customary lands through farming is seen as a way to solve law and order issues, urban migration, drugs, alcohol, and many illegal activities.

• Agricultural Knowledge Hub: The farm aims to be a good breeding centre from which local farmers can acquire improved breeds of all kinds of livestock. It will also become a site of observation for young entrepreneurs and farmers as well and students.
National Impact and Supply.

• Food Security and Health: The main objective is to reduce reliance on imported meats and milk. The farm will produce home-grown organic products and make easy access to quality meat and Milk available nationwide.

• Market Penetration: EPNGAF plans to be a major wholesale supply of meat and milk to all shopping centres, freezers, and retail shops. They plan to supply products to any business houses or project areas in Papua New Guinea. Marketing targets include supplying major areas like the Highland Region, Goroka, Lae, Madang, all Mining Areas in Highland, NGI Regions, and Port Moresby.

• Value-Added Industry: The expansion will create more employment opportunities in the food processing industry. Future processed products will include Mechanically recovered meat (MRM) such as pies, burgers, sausages, spreads, and pates from various animals, as well as specialty Goat Dairy products like Gelatos and Soaps.

• Projected Revenue: The estimated Annual Income for the farm after the commercial upgrade is projected to be 40  plus millions of Kina.

Exports and International Reach

EPNGAF has the ambition to supply products nationwide and abroad. They plan to ensure the business is positioned to attract consumers across PNG and will be exporting some of our Farm produce either in raw form or processed form to other countries of the world. Export plans specifically include shipments of pigs, beef, goat meat, goat milk products, duck meat, turkey meat, guineafowl, and rainbow trout.