Papua New Guinea Accelerator Graduates 2023
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Agricop Enterprises Ltd
Our green enterprise will facilitate quality and consistent supply of local fresh produce in supermarkets, hotels, restaurants, etc. We will also target niche markets and doorstep delivery to prepaid customers. Our initiative promotes national food security for self-sufficiency by supporting and networking smallholder productivity and production of quality fresh produce in sufficient quantities to meet local demand and cut down on importation of fresh produce. The environmental/social purpose of our business is to ensure climate-smart farming codes of practice by making sure that resilient communities employ environment friendly farming practices. The introduction of better farming techniques will increase the quality and quantity of produce. This will increase family income, henceforth improve their standard of living.
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Bulolo Central Trading (Solar Village PNG)
We identify ourselves as for-profit social business focusing on the delivery of Solar Home Systems (SHS) and other solar lighting products to the off-grid communities throughout Papua New Guinea. The founders are the husband-and-wife team Silas and Julie Muingnepe who are ordinary working-class Papua New Guineans who saw the energy deficiency in PNG as an opportunity for business. Registered in 2016 we begin our solar business operations at our home at ATS Settlement in 2018 on the outskirts of Port Moresby and later opened our first shop at 4 Mile, Boroko. We are now located at the Six Mile SME Incubation Centre, Port Moresby where we have now sold close to 700 solar lighting products to customers throughout PNG. Our purpose is to build a low carbon world by accelerating solar energy access for communities across PNG and the Pacific.
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Daulo Commodities Cooperative Society Ltd
Daulo Commodities Cooperative Society Ltd (DCCSL), located in Daulo District, has operated as an agribusiness for more than 4 years. We buy coffee and bulb onions at the farm gate at favourable prices. We enable rural farmers who mostly rely on inherited subsistence farming to grow into commercial farms, addressing poverty and building resilience to environmental, social and economic issues through climate smart agribusiness.
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FARM PNG
FARM PNG is family farm model business which was established to better mobilize food champions from shifting focus on subsistence to commercial farming. The business aims to promote sustainable livelihoods through developing Fresh Produce, Livestock and fisheries sector in a community base set up where families can maximize the usage of their land to develop this sector to sustain their livelihood. FARM PNG's current Integrated Organic farming family business set up is located at Japilik area, Vudal Agriculture Resettlement Scheme area, Vudal Ward, Inland Baining LLG, Gazelle District-East New Britain Province.
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Kupala Cleaning and Landscaping
Kupala Cleaning and Landscaping is a business based in the Capital of Papua New Guinea, Port Moresby. The business intends to provide services such as cleaning waste in public places, streets, markets, drainage and beaches and to plant trees and flowers to make Port Moresby a Green City in Pacific.
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Pero Pero Ltd
At Pero Pero @ Mangul Eco Guesthouse, our main Unique value proposition is that we are customer service focused. We want to give our customers the “KRX” experience that they will never forget and will take away with them. From the moment they arrive on our shores, to their stay with us until they leave, we intend to make it relaxing, enjoyable and memorable.
The current major initiative of our business is to be the leading Eco Guest house in the Sumkar District in the next 5 years, by 2028. We are located at Kuburne village, Karkar Island, Sumkar District of Madang, Papua New Guinea.
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PNG Highest Mountain Trekkers
PNGHMT is based in Simbu province and offers real adventure experiences as rural tourism event planners & is an advocate for green travel and climate change in Papua New Guinea. Our guides and porters are trained to conduct responsible travel awareness for local and international tourists and we participate in tree planting (with 14,000 trees planted) and green energy community projects in Simbu Province and in Papua New Guinea. We plan to expand to offer a farm tourism model as part of food security and community poverty relief through our partnerships. PNGHMT is committed to taking part in sustainable economic development in order to improve the quality of life for the local community and environment.
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Queenpads Products Limited
QueenPads is a locally owned social and green enterprise established in August of 2018 in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea to care for menstruating individuals’ special day’s needs.
QueenPads aims to Ignite care, respect, educate and prioritize menstrual health, menstrual needs, the environment and normalize menstrual conversation and support the estimated 60% menstruating individuals in Papua New Guinea, while creating job opportunities.
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Sere J Pacific
Sere J Pacific builds cooperative societies in Papua New Guinea by providing services of cooperative entrepreneurship and market access by purchasing all the cooperative produce ensuring there is reliable market for their produce domestically and internationally.
1. Cooperative Entrepreneurship Program: we provide expertise in cooperative
entrepreneurship to help cooperative of small-scale farmers develop their businesses and improve their operations. This includes training workshops, coaching sessions and on-site support.
2. Market Access: we provide market access to cooperatives, ensuring that they have a reliable market for their produce. This includes access to local and international markets, as well as marketing and branding support.
3. Program Strategies: we provide three programs that involves
(i) women’s economic development in order to improve gender equality, family livelihoods and food security,
(ii) empower youth leadership and entrepreneurship and
(iii) we encourage community-driven transformation through rural economies to improve livelihoods of the people.
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Te'hine Trend
Te’hine Trend's local products are unique in representing the culture, design and art, skills and passion of PNG. We incorporate local designs in our apparel and empower the craftsmanship of our women, youth and the marginalized group as a whole. The business also supports the rich work of art that speaks tales of our ancestral stories creatively displayed on both our fashion line and handcrafted contemporary jewelry based on innovative and unique design with a concept of increasing the use of alternative materials including readily available renewable resources handpicked from nature, to alter the concept of modern jewellery which in future will generate new jewellery trends.
Papua New Guinea Incubator Graduates 2023
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EJM TRACK AND TOURS LIMITED
EJM Track and Tours Limited is a 100 percent local family company providing a service-oriented business in the tourism sector. The core business services include tour guide and operatorship, customized tours, medivac, hire car, medivac and accommodation. Our main target in the market is the famous Kokoda Track and we see that there need to be a service-oriented model to assist both local and international trackers and visitors.
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Emkay Water Service
Emkay Water Service will not only be taking water closer to rural communities for domestic and business needs in Papua New Guinea, but will also be using health and environmentally conscious technology to provide quality water through cost-effective and easy-to-use treatment plants generated by solar-powered pumps.
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Go Organic, Go Bioenergy PNG Limited
Go Organic, Go Bioenergy PNG is making available of affordable nutrient rich vegetables and fruits, and also renewable bioenergy to the low income earners who are living with K10.00 per day.
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Kemas Haven Ltd
Kemas Haven Ltd is providing support to reduce poverty in families, homes and communities. We believe in empowering women to be successful in what they believe, and except on one is left behind. Making sure there is sustainable for their homes, families and communities where they come from. . Try a women with K50.00, she has plans to buy for the house but, try a man with K50.00, there is no plans, its all gone with friends.
Try a women, you will never go wrong, because she will multiply.
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Momase Baskets
Momase Baskets provides income for the less fortunate youths and mothers who would otherwise be engagaed in unethical activities; by advertising and selling their beautiful,hyand woven baskets made from upcycled POLYSTRAPS.
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Morobe Human Resource Consultants t/a Elle's Fresh Fish Market
Morobe Human Resource Consultants, also trades as Elles Fresh Fish Market. We provide an avenue for local fishermen, including boys, women and girls to catch and sell fish to Elles Fish Market. We also commit ourselves improve rural lives and advocate on Gender Equity for better living in rural areas.
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Ni-Van Tailoring and Designs
Ni-Van Tailoring and Designs aims at reducing unemployment by creating job opportunities for the rural farmers and their families by creating hand purses, bags and sanitary pads using waste banana stems. The staple crop planted in rural Rigo in Papua New Guinea is Banana. Thousands of banana stem are wasted every year after the bananas are harvested. Many are left to rot away. By introducing a new way of recycling waste banana stem will create employment and reduce urban migration.
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Nuku Vanilla Traders
My green business is a newly registered business. We are doing farming and operations in Kieta, AROB , PNG. We are focusing on growing crops like, ginger, carrot, cassava and other cash crops to supply Business Houses in Port Moresby.
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Trendy Boutique Online
My business provides vast customized clothing and accessories branded with the Trendy Boutique logo. One of my product catagory is PNG Handmade, that sells sawn meri blouses and weaved bilums/string bags that's popular in the country. I provide different deigns and style with a step forward by adding bilum linings for the interior. Its a common carry on bag for women to do shopping which eliminates the use of plastic bags and paper bags that pollutes the environment.
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Sikita Kambi Enda Inc
We train women to be successful in SME activities and they focus on; agriculture, poultry, sewing, baking and other SME activities. Our Association also does awareness on safe guiding the community such as awareness on violence against women, Covid-19 awareness etc. whilst taking into account gender equality, disability and social inclusive.
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The Seed Supplier
The Seed Supplier developed a matchless innovation by closely working with rural farmers collecting fallen dried palm leaves and transforming into biodegradable plates and spoons which are then sold to the urban population addressing healthy choice and plastic pollution.
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Tune Agfarming Limited
Tune Agfarming Limited is a small-scale agribusiness farming that deals with crops and livestock farming. Our main activity and focus is producing and selling certified and clean Seed Potato to the farmers at affordable prices because the livelihoods of local farmers in Kandep district and parts of Enga province is mostly dependent on potato crop, therefore, the availability and accessibility of disease-free seeds helps them to produce quality potatoes for marketing and home consumption.
Papua New Guinea Incubator Graduates 2022
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2ndPhase
In Port Moresby, we have growing squatter settlements and one in particular Morata, which is North-West of the city, accommodates a large number of unemployed semi/skilled youths.
Recognizing the plight of many of these young people, 2ndPhase will work closely with local Churches and other NGOs to provide youths with access to career and employment coaching, internships, and technical and life skills training.
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Howarig Traders
Howarig Traders provides a unique and exciting pathway for the introduction and use of blockchain technology and cryptocurrency in Papua New Guinea. The completion of this online payment system will see many forested land owners having equal benefits of economizing forest conservation by receiving carbon credit from carbon trading.
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Eagle Vetiver Systems Limited
Eagle Vetiver Systems Ltd is the only Greenpreneur in PNG and the South Pacific with international certification in Bioengineering and Phytoremediation (use of vetiver grass) in environmental remediation and protection works with over 12 years of technical experience, delivering projects here in PNG, Solomon Islands, Fiji and Tuvalu.
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Papua New Guinea Incubator Graduates 2021
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Agricop Enterprises Ltd
Our enterprise will focus on the following:
i) Identify model farmers and assist them produce quality fresh produce consistently in sufficient quantities.
ii) Secure sustainable market for fresh produce from those model farmers in urban centers commencing with Port Moresby.
iii) Assist farmers with farm management services, credit facility and logistical support for fresh produce production, processing, packaging, transportation and delivery services.
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ALMA BESTPAC
We mainly purchase and resell Noni oil which is used for any skin ailments or diseases. This then leads to job creation for youths, women and even men who receive an income from us to help sustain their livelihood. The problem that we are trying to solve is self reliance, job creation and service delivery to our people who have been displaced for the last 17 years after a volcanic eruption and they are becoming refugees.
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AMBUM AGRO FARMERS LTD
AMBUM AGRO-FARMERS LTD (AAFL). is a registered small business , that was initiated and established recently to participate in agricultural business activities especially in the coffee industry more particularly business doing major coffee rehabilitation, developing coffee nurseries, processing coffee, buying coffee and exporting coffee.
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Corey's Girls Fishery
My business focuses on promoting healthy living and creating employment opportunities in the community especially for women and youth by;
1. Catching and selling fresh salt water fish
2. Making and selling handmade jewelries from local resources such as sea shells, seeds and stones
3. Selling organic vegetables in assorted packs
I am also planning to start fishing farming in natural ponds.
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Enga Forever Green
Rural agritourism business, Enga Forever Green, is focusing on transforming the benefits of rich natural resource wealth of Enga province into positive and tangible sustainable socio-economic development. The activities of rural agritourism will solve issues such as increase law and order, land tenure dilemmas, loss of natural ecosystem services, and water and sanitation. Agritourism entrepreneurs become main actors of their own developments and simultaneously maintaining the natural assets.
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Kupala Cleaning & Landscaping
Kupala Cleaning and Landscaping is a business based in the Capital of Papua New Guinea, Port Moresby. The business intendeds to provide the following services;
1.Cleaning waste in public places, streets, markets, drainage and beaches
2. Plant trees and flowers to make Port Moresby a Green City in Pacific.
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Mine well limited
Mine well limited is a company registered to provide solutions in electricity and telecommunications to rural communities.
The name “Mine well” is derived from the peaceful state of mind achieved as a result of humans’ needs and wants being addressed, whereupon, eradicating any problems or stress and creating a peaceful community.
Minewell aims to help in terms of mini hydro electricity setup in rural remote and mountainous terrains of Papua New Guinea in the Kokoda District in Oro province.
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Pirigi Distributors
I sell inks and ink cartridges to customers. I also reuse old ink cartridges to recycle the inks so that cartridges are not wasted and then sell them for a lower and more affordable price to customers, whereupon, helping to reduce waste and minimize carbon emissions from burning used cartridges.
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Queenpads Products Limited
We produce reusable menstrual products for menstruating females in Papua New Guinea and also conduct menstrual health & hygiene awareness sessions because about 80% of females are challenged accessing and affording pads and they lack basic information on good health & hygiene. Many still adhere to cultural beliefs & practices which sometimes restricts them to fully participate and perform their roles.
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Sere J Pacific
Sere J Pacific is a social enterprise that promotes sustainable production and fair trade, contributing to the economic development of agriculture and fisheries programs in PNG, and uses entrepreneurial approaches to solve problems of rural poverty by building cooperative societies from scratch and managing the development and operation of their agriculture and fisheries programs.
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Surunki Honey
Surunki Honey (SH) is a small medium enterprise focusing on honey production. Quality and composition of the honey product are the major problems. These factors vary and depend mainly on the plant source of nectar from which it is obtained. SH aim to undertake research and development to identify a nectar source, a plant like Manuka plant in New Zealand. Hence, the overall goal is to produce honey with a label known as Unique Surunki Factor® just like Unique Manuka Factor® of New Zealand.
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Te'hine Trend
My sole trader jewellery and apparel business addresses the environmental issue of carbon footprint, where we value the use of natural/sustainable resources such as natural shells, seeds and natural fiber that would minimize carbon footprint. We create locally-made pieces from these natural resources to also showcase unique cultures, wealth and local backgrounds, incorporating and marketing indigenous handcrafted arts and crafts hence also slowly solving the social issue of Women earning income.
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TM RESELLER
My business is focused on helping women and youths resell their produce, and to empower youths and women to utilize the available resources to create self-employment and promote sustainable livelihood through water, sanitation and hygiene development and environment beautification and restoration.
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VilLINK Ltd
VilLink Ltd focuses on Eco-tourism development and Mangrove conservation.
Our primary objective is to address environmental issues and create economic incentives by developing the project sites into nature-based tourism products for visitors to experience the mangrove lush rainforest and its inhabitants. Some examples of the nature-based tourism activities are;
1. Mangrove boardwalk sightseeing tour
2. Mangrove planting (voluntary)
3. Bird watching
4. Mangrove Education Excursion Program
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Wabag Waste Management Ltd
Wabag Waste Management Ltd is situated in the Wabag town of Enga Province which is now regarded as a best tourist destination. However, increased economic and social activities have contributed to uncontrolled waste disposal ,whereupon, defacing the town and streams which is becoming a hazard to the environment and future generation.
To address these issues, Wabag Waste Management Ltd aims to initiate and start the first-ever waste management initiative through creating awareness programs on proper waste management and control and introduction of recycling practices for the communities, with the help of the local government in the near future.