Vanuatu Agricultural Show. - 16th to 20th October 2017

Monday the Vanuatu Agricultural Show started. The main site is on Independence Park, so for us it is just  across the road from where we work.  So we will be checking it daily.  The show doesn't rival the New Zealand Agricultural Fieldays at Mystery Creek, Hamilton.  It is still impressive with a full range of organisations and products on display. Here are some photos from day one.

This is Gilbert Gibson, an elder from our church the ICC. This is the stand for Gilbert's smokeless stoves.  Gilbert is a beekeeper and also makes and distributes the smokeless stoves. 

Of course there has to be the tractors and the farm equipment stands.  We haven't had a decent amount of rain on Efate Island for several months.  You can see how dry the ground is by the brown grass.  On Tanna Island (to the south of Efate) they haven't had rain since Cyclone Donna passed thorough back in early May.

These onions were large, one was 900 grammes

The market produce area

The local pamplemousse (grapefruit) They are large weigh well over a kilo.

Cabbages and pumpkins

Local taro on the ground

Some of the stands for the local produce and organisations.  Tanna Coffee it's nanbawan in Vanuatu 

The Tanna Farms stand. Some of you in New Zealand may have seen the programme Country Calendar last week and the article on Tanna Farms

Vanuatu takes climate change very seriously. There is a stand on climate change at the show

There are many rows of stalls

A couple of videos of the site today