PYRETHRUM PROCESSING IN PAPUA NEW GUINEA

Pyrethrum is grown as a cash crop in the central mountain areas above 2000 m in Papua New Guinea.
With the high potential of this crop, a extraction factory producing crude oleoresin was commissioned in 1964 processing nearly 600 tons dried flowers annually in peak years.
However for various reasons flower production declined and the factory stopping for a few years.
Management was transferred, the factory renovated, flower production revitalized and the industry is building up again.

I International Symposium on Pyrethrum, The Natural Insecticide: Scientific and Industrial Developments in the Renewal of a Traditional Industry

P. Corbett

Pyrethrum is grown as a cash crop in the central mountain areas above 2000 m in Papua New Guinea. With the high potential of this crop, a extraction factory producing crude oleoresin was commissioned in 1964 processing nearly 600 tons dried flowers annually in peak years. However for various reasons flower production declined and the factory stopping for a few years. Management was transferred, the factory renovated, flower production revitalized and the industry is building up again.

https://doi.org/10.17660/ActaHortic.2015.1073.6