Pacific Islands Monthly
The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930
Pacific Islands Monthly, 16 June 1941Vol. XI, No. 11

Tonga Grows Peanuts For Nz Market

p. 30 · Read in the full issue

Page 3030

By distributing over two tons of peanut seeds to native Tongan planters recently, the Government of Tonga is encouraging the Islanders to grow alternative crops, other than coconuts.

Experiments have shown that both land and climate are eminently suited to the production of high-grade peanuts, and arrangements have been made to export the harvest to New Zealand.

This healthy patch of peanut plants at Fuamotu, a village on Tongatabu, is owned by Prince Gu, young son of Queen Salote. —Photo: A. Hettig.

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