Pacific Islands Monthly
The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930
Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 October 1963Vol. 34, No. 3

Fiji To Produce More Sugar Next Year

p. 59 · Read in the full issue

Page 5959

Mr. A. S. Hermes, acting man aging director of South Pacific Sugar Mills Ltd., said recently the Sugar Board of Fiji had approved a harvest quota for 1964 of 2,300,000 tons of cane and 300,000 tons of sugar.

This is 25,000 tons of sugar more than the target for this year.

Mr. Hermes said the upward revision had been made after taking into account local requirements, over seas markets, stock levels, expected

mill capacities and the expected cane production capacity of the existing farms.

Mr. Hermes said the United States had agreed to take a further 9,362 tons of sugar from Fiji this year.

The sugar had been allotted under America’s global quota and is for delivery by the middle of November.

It means that Fiji will now be exporting about 38,000 tons of sugar to the United States this year.

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