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Media type:
E-Article
Title:
The Fiji Sugar Industry: Sustainability Challenges and the Way Forward
Contributor:
Dean, Mohseen Riaz Ud
imprint:
Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2022
Published in:Sugar Tech
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1007/s12355-022-01132-4
ISSN:
0972-1525;
0974-0740
Origination:
Footnote:
Description:
<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>This paper examines the problems facing the sugar industry in Fiji. It expands on the difficulties of world trade and the macro- and micro-problems that affects the sugar industry sternly. It also discusses local challenges associated with sugarcane crop production and sugar manufacturing in the country. Additionally, it provides an overview of some of the specific issues directly facing smallholder sugarcane growers. This study is based on a customised mixed-methods research conducted in the year 2015 in the sugarcane-producing areas on the islands of Viti Levu and Vanua Levu in Fiji. The 33 farmers and members of their households in the study comprised both descendants of the <jats:italic>Girmitiya</jats:italic> community brought from India under the colonial rule and the native <jats:italic>iTaukei</jats:italic> sugarcane farmers, who rely primarily on cash incomes derived from the sale of sugarcane and other diversified farm products. This paper demonstrates that the sugar industry in Fiji is currently facing a ‘perfect storm’—wave after wave of major difficulties coming all at once—and the country is beginning to tackle these problems only as they reach crisis point.</jats:p>