Fiji's ginger
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Big boost for Fiji's ginger
A consignment of Fiji ginger worth $20,000 left Suva for London re cently.
Ginger exporters hailed the move as an enormous boost for the local industry, since the London ginger market is described as one of the toughest in the world to crack. Small shipments have been sold in London in the last five years—but the last consignment was five times bigger than any.
Unfortunately, other big sales in London will depend entirely, accord ing to the exporters, on the vagaries of shipping. The big shipment by the Orcades was possible only because the liner had happened to be mak ing an overnight stay. If the call had been for a day and it had been rain ing, it might have been impossible to load the consignment before the liner sailed.