Soil Erosion in Fiji
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Hard Task Set Agricultural Dep[?]
Suva, Aug. 19.
For years Fiji’s Agriculture Depai ment has been battling to carry o a campaign, practical as wen educational, against soil ® ro , sl °?- ki , indications are that it 18 P^ some headway against states of ml ranging from indifference to (in the ca of many Indians), active opposition.
The annual report of the District Co missioner Western (Mr. C. «-• Nott) states that in the Sigatoka ar five farmers promptly P lQ ughed out t contours which departmental officers h carefully prepared. Later, however fc of the five asked for their farms to recontoured. This was duly done.