More Fijian Cane
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Farmers
fTIHE production of sugarcane which was X cultivated by Fijians increased from 20,000 tons in 1947 to 31,673 tons in 1948.
An illustration of how Fijians are in creasingly turning to cane-production is provided by Toga Island, in the Rewa River below Nausori. Here certain lease
holds recently reverted to the Fijian owners and during 1949 three small vil lage communities set to work to demon strate that the passing of formerly leased caneland to Fijian control need not in volve a reduction in production.
Led by P. V. Hunt Sila, widely known as the first Fijian individual farmer to establish a successful dairy-farm on a substantial scale, the villagers brought more than 100 new acres into cane-pro duction during the year.