Limol Village Agriculture Overview

This website details the agricultural practices of Limol village in Western Province, Papua New Guinea. The following information is based on multiple interviews conducted with residents of Limol in 2016. Plant names and other agricultural-related terminology are often given in English and in Ende, the language spoken in Limol.

Limol village (Lat -8.64 Long 142.69) relies on subsistence farming with everyone from children to the elderly participating in agricultural activities such as clearing land, planting, and harvesting. Gardens are spread throughout the forests and marsh areas around the village, as well as in the village, and are often differentiated by the predominant crop grown in the garden. All agricultural cultivation activities including soil preparation, planting, and harvesting are done by hand. The agricultural systems are rain-fed and extremely low input with supplemental fertility limited to leaves and other organic matter while a couple native plants are used as pesticides. The staple crops are yams (Dioscorea spp.), sago palm (Metroxylon sagu), taro (Colocasia esculenta), banana (Musa spp.), and coconut (Cocos nucifera). Other important crops include sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas), cassava (Manihot esculenta), squash (Cucurbita spp.), and pineapple (Ananas comosus).

Temperature and precipitation (rain) information collected during six week field trip during August-September 2016 to Limol village, Western Province, PNG

View of several houses in Limol village

Location of Limol, Western Province, PNG (source: Google Earth).

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