Economy of Mul-Baiyer-Lumusa 

People in the District are entirely dependent on subsistence farming.

Agriculture seems to be the greatest source of income. However, farming is still primitive and small-scale.

Most of the social services are maintained by the government through the DSIP (District Services Improvement Program).

A small number of people from the district are employed by government as public servants. They are seen as the ‘working class people’ in the District.

Entrepreneurship is minimal with a few getting into business either in the province or in other centers. They send money back to the district for their families to maintain their livelihoods.

People tend to live by each day with whatever they could lay hands on but a few save money for school fees and other customary obligations.

There are two tea plantations, Puglump and Minjikina which have employed locals. However, productions have already ceased a decade ago leaving them in ruins.

The local Mt. Hagen Market is one of the only places that enables the selling of local produces. However, transporting crops and garden produces to outside centre or exporting them remain only ambitious.

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