PNG sweetpotato growers learn from Aussie industry

Ashley Walmsley
Updated June 19 2019 - 12:29pm, first published June 7 2019 - 12:00pm
HERO DISH: Some of the Papua New Guinean sweetpotato farmers with HSG At The Gardens chef and owner, Dion Taylor (centre), and dish featuring specially prepared sweetpotato.
HERO DISH: Some of the Papua New Guinean sweetpotato farmers with HSG At The Gardens chef and owner, Dion Taylor (centre), and dish featuring specially prepared sweetpotato.

SITTING down to a chef-prepared meal with sweetpotato as the hero ingredient at a leading Bundaberg restaurant seems a world away from the highland villages of Papua New Guinea.

Ashley Walmsley

Ashley Walmsley

Editor, Good Fruit & Vegetables

Ashley Walmsley is the editor of ACM's only national, fresh produce magazine, Good Fruit & Vegetables, while also covering horticulture stories for the agricultural papers and websites. He also writes the weekly, The Ringer, column in the Qld Country Life.

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