An agriculture scheme consisting of 14 Koro villages for planting dalo and other agriculture produce has given villages a chance to help themselves.

Our reporter in Koro, Ana Naisoro said agriculture officials said this initiative is a new one by the government for farmers to be self sufficient and earn a living and in turn develop their villages.

Naisoro said according to Agriculture Field Officer Etuate Sauvakatoga before, they were able to produce 40 to 400 tonnes of dalotausala per month but after this initiative was implemented they are aiming to achieve 100 to 120 tonnes a month within the next six months as this is exported.

The group in the initiative is made up of either villages or separate clans and they have to register with them and submit a report of how much they have planted in a month.

When the initiative first started there were only 10 schemes but now they have registered 47.