Of Life

[?]ney're Not So Sweet [?]wa Cane Farmers [?]old The Facts Of Life

Prom a Suva Correspondent ether or not a new Rewa r sugar mill eventuates in - and no one but the local : armers seem to want it ertain that there can be no nill in 1960 and that there >e no income from Rewa

after next June.

r is the message that the Fiji vernment began to din into ; hsads of the Rewa cane s in November following the meeting of the new sugar ly which let the public know new mill was still only at the hope” stage ( PIM , No ■).

Harry Halstead, Acting Corn ier Central, began a barn ig tour of the district to im m the farmers the hard facts farmers were not being asked it to forget their dream of a ling sugar industry, but they »eing told that future sugar y or not, they were going to o eat in the interim. thing to do immediately re, whatever they did in the in, was to get down and plant ther cash crop to provide for sar. The last CSR cane pay the current crop will be made line.

Halstead has been urging the s to form 15 local develop committees, each to decide ;hey want to grow in their eas.

Government Will Help

ng decided that —and the iment will not coerce them ly particular crop—they were to convey their intentions to partment of Agriculture. That nent will give them every aid Wishing the crops. Machinery ; made available at reason re rates. and dalo are crops suggested t likely to meet the situation.

Department will co-ordinate erall planting programme to individual costs and to as lat there is not a glut of any liar product. ate November there were in ns that the farmers were to listen to advice and to at least part of their land h crops to meet immediate