Fiji’S Rice
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Remarkable Development Of Indians’ Industry
NOT much more than a decade ago Fiji was dependent upon rice from Burma and other producing countries for her supplies.
To-day Fiji has 10,000 acres under crop, and imports have practically ceased, except for special rice from China for the Chinese residents, writes the Suva cor respondent of the “S.M. Herald.”
Now that the industry has been firmly established, the Government has shut down its mill and the community— Europeans, natives and Indians—is supplied with good rice by over 30 small mills (owned and worked by Indians), many of which are worked by motor power.
The Indian farmers, even those dependent upon sugarcane-growing, generally manage to have an acre or so of growing rice for home consumption.