I met these two friendly ladies selling taro at a market in Alotau, the capital of Milne Bay in Papua New Guinea. Milne Bay is a province in the far east of the country and includes more than 600 islands (many of them uninhabited) plus isolated atolls and coral reefs. It has only about 210,000 inhabitants but some 48 different languages are spoken there!
The locals still enjoy a simple, peaceful existence for the most part. Economically the province is dependent upon tourism (scuba-diving is a big attraction) and oil-palm cultivation. Cocoa and copra (dried coconut meat) are produced on a smaller scale for export. Subsistence crops grown in the villages include bananas, corn, cassava, sago, yams and taro.
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