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 […]
Like many things that make a lasting change, it started off with something simple – in April 2015, a farmer from Fiji, Livai Tora, was invited to Tonga to work with 68 farmers on papaya production in the country. The farmers came from five separate farmer organisations and such was the impact of this initial […]