Major agricultural policies in PNG in the past 20 years including - TopicsExpress

Major agricultural policies in PNG in the past 20 years including those entailed in the White Paper: Agriculture 1996 – 2000 (National Food Security Policy; National Agricultural Development Strategy 2002 – 2012, the PNG style’ Green Revolution etc) have not been met with desired results, probably due to weak governance (institutional and / or political failures) and externalities. These calls for serious review and redefinition of existing policies, towards mitigating constraint factors and development potentials of this country. It may be to this effect that the National Agricultural Development Plan (NADP) is introduced with anticipation for successes. While the NADP is commendable, it is neither a panacea nor antidote as the plan has yet to translate intended strategies into realized ones. Few questions needed to be asked from the outset: Have the stagnant policies been appropriately reviewed and redefined to be implemented as per the plan? Is the plan derived through a proper (analysis and synthesis) SWOT model platform? Or, is the plan a product of professionals know best’ approach (blueprint) that is inflexible and prone to suffer defects which what the World Bank (1983) describes as ‘human projects’, or, is the plan a product of the Learning Process approach (bottom-up)? Has the institutional bottle – necks properly reformed to facilitate the plan? Or, have risk management strategies considered in the plan as agriculture in PNG is subjected to wide range of risks? These questions are not intended to undermine the technicalities and professional inputs into the NADP, but they emerged as a result of lack of public knowledge on the White Paper and lack of intended results. Further more, any development plan needs to be accompanied by an implementing strategy that is realistic and doable with provision of resources and in particular should link with policies and the overall MTDS to see the preferred outcome over sustained period.

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