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Agriculture portal; Pages in category "Sugar cane grower associations in Fiji" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. This list ...
The 1921 strike by sugar cane farmers was a spontaneous action led by Vashist Muni. Umbrella organisations were formed to present a united front in negotiating with the CSR and later the Fiji Sugar Corporation (FSC) (est. 1973). In 1959, the Federation of Cane Growers was formed, and in 1980 the Joint Committee of Cane Growers Associations was ...
Sugar cane grew wild in Fiji and was used as thatch by the Fijians for their houses (bures). The first attempt to make sugar in Fiji was on Wakaya Island in 1862 but this was a financial failure. With the cotton boom of the 1860s there was little incentive to plant a crop that required high capital outlay but after a slump in cotton prices in ...
Fiji Sugar Corporation (FSC) is the government-owned sugar milling company in Fiji having monopoly on production of raw sugar in Fiji. It is also the largest public enterprise in the country employing nearly 3,000 people, while another 200,000 or more depend on it for their livelihood in rural sugar cane belts of Fiji. [1]
Agriculture portal; ... Sugar Cane farmers unions in Fiji; Sugar mills in Fiji; V. Manasa Vaniqi This page was last edited on 14 November 2024, at 21:17 (UTC). ...
Sugar Cane Growers Council represents the sugar cane farmers in Fiji. [1] It is made up of 38 members elected by the farmers and eight members nominated by the government. The Sugar Cane Growers Council election is held every three years. [2] The Council has a chief executive, the first one being Vijay R. Singh, and a chairman. [3]
In the 1998 Sugar Cane Growers Council elections, the NFU won 22 seats. In 2001, the National Farmers Union won 21 seats while the Fiji Cane Growers Association won 16 seats. One seat went to an independent. In 2004, the NFU retained its majority in the Sugar Cane Growers Council, winning 22 of the 38 seats contested.
The Fiji Cane Growers Association (FCGA) is a cane farmers' union established in 1992 by supporters of the National Federation Party (NFP). [ 1 ] After the 1987 military coup in Fiji , most of the farmers' unions curtailed their activities, leaving the National Farmers Union (NFU) as the only active farmers' union in the country.