Abstract

Papua New Guinea (PNG) is part of the second largest island in the world situated in the Pacific Ocean. This developing nation is rich in many resources from renewable to non-renewable resources, however the act of downstream processing for the country’s income is still an issue as it is lacking. Therefore, the 2023 Papua New Guinea University of Technology (PNGUOT) Industrial Engineering and Operations Management Student Chapter has taken up the initiative to emphasize on lack of downstream processing in other significant resource extraction sectors in PNG, which in this case is the Agriculture Sector. PNG has surplus agricultural crops and livestock, however, there is a lack of PNG owned companies that can carry out downstream processing, that can allow income to be generated from the exported finished products in the agriculture sector. This paper focuses on investigating the condition and presenting factual information on the condition and recommendations that could be implemented to rectify the lack of downstream processing in PNG.