Coconuts

Fiji Punts More

i LTHOUGH the replanting or ex- I. tension of coconut plantations is being neglected in many acific territories, Fiji’s coconut anting campaign got away to a >od start last year and considerable ‘ogress has already been made.

Much of the new planting is king place in the Northern Dis ict—Taveuni, Vanua Levu. etc.— id European planters as well as jian are taking part.

In 1951, 151,000 seed nuts were anted in nurseries and from these irsenes 1,064 acres have now been anted up—about half of the area mg planted by Fijian growers.