Coconut Planting Campaign
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In Fiji
Prom Our Own Correspondent SUVA, March 1 ¥7IOLLO WING on the successful banana X 1 planting campaign by the natives of the Southern District of Fiji, the Colony’s Department of Agriculture has decided to do as much for the coconut growing Fijians.
The aim for this year is 15,000 acres of new coconuts planted; but the plan does not stop there —it is hoped to encourage the Fijians to make regular plantings for each year for the next 10 years and at the same time to improve, by building better driers, the quality of their copra. (Ed. Note: This plan to plant new coconuts is in contrast to the state of affairs in Papua-New Guinea and BSI where virtually no new planting has been undertaken since before the war.)