Price Control Does Not
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Solve Fiji's Vegetable
Problem
Prom Our Own Correspondent
Suva. May 9.
THE recent reintroduction of price control over vegetables and other market produce at Levuka, Fiji, has led to agitation for similar action to be taken in Suva and other centres.
Unfortunately, Levuka’s experience is not altogether happy. Supplies from growers have shown a marked tendency to vanish before they get to the market— obviously into the black-market.
Suva’s market grievances are mainly attributed to the middlemen (usually Asiatics) who swoop like vultures on the Fijian growers as they arrive and quickly divide the bundles into small quantities for which they demand up to 10 per cent, more than they paid the Fijian grower for the whole bundle.