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Bringing farmers together to talk about the technical side of farming is pretty easy in the Pacific. Farmers want to talk to each other and learn from each other. The success of farmer-tofarmer learning exchanges is testament to this. Bringing farmers together to talk about issues and policy is a little bit harder and sometimes […]

Filipe Filihia is a Tongan farmer. He was involved in both the breadfruit and papaya farmer-to-farmer technical exchanges that were conducted through the MTCP2 programme. These exchanges opened his mind to the full possibilities of farming, improved his farming knowledge and changed his farming practices. He first learnt how to grow papaya for export, and […]