Sugar Growers
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Poyments for Fiji Sugar Growers
Suva, Nov. 12.
CANE growers in Fiji have been paid an average of 28/9 per ton for their 1946 cane crop.
Altogether, the Colonial Sugar Refining Company has paid out £900,000 this year to growers whose total crop is about 80 per cent, of a normal yield. Cane production is still feeling the effect of the cane-fields trouble that swept over Fiji in 1943-44.
The price paid for cane to-day is almost twice as much as the average price in 1939 (15/6). The British Government guarantees the high price of the Fiji crop to-day and the unfortunate British consumer pays for it. Fiji canegro\frers are much better off than growers in other Colonies, both in regard to the price they receive, and because in Fiji the CSR Company transports the cane to the crushing mills —an item of expen diture which the growers in other Col onies have to bear themselves.