Fiji Rice At Last Makes Headway
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Although there was initial reluctance by Indian farmers to change over from sugar-cane to rice-growing in Rewa Valley, Fiji, when the Colonial Sugar Refining Co. Ltd. closed down its Nausori mill late last year, many have now made the switch and over 8,000 acres are planted in rice.
CSR Co, has gone ahead steadily with the building of its new ricemill which, under the managership of Mr. G. M. R. Day, will be ready to mill padi when harvesting begins in June and July.
Farm machinery has been provided by the Government and the CSR Co., and agricultural experts predict the Rewa this year will yield
some 7,000 tons of padi. Not all of this will be handled by the CSR mill, of course, since there are other small Indian mills in the area, A CSR subsidiary, Rewa Rice Ltd., was registered in Suva in March with a capital of £200,000 “to operate as planters, cultivators, and sellers of rice, cereals and fruit of every kind”.