didiman

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didiman (plural didimen)

  1. (Papua New Guinea) A worker in the department of agriculture.
    • 1980, Michael A. H. B. Walter, Cattle Ranches are about People: Social Science Dimensions of a Commercial Feasibility Study:
      In 1957 the didimen assisted in placing markers for planting cocoa on village cooperative demonstration plots.
    • 2015, Trish Nicholson, Inside the Crocodile: The Papua New Guinea Journals:
      The last destination was by road to Poro, a subdistrict with another, larger, more modern cacao fermentary, and a nursery where didimen raised cacao, citrus and other plants to supply local farmers.
    • 2021 January 6, Janet Kari, “Didiman’s diary dream comes true”, in Papua New Guinea Post Courier‎[1]:
      It has been Noah Saigaiur’s dream to become a didiman or an agriculture officer one day.
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