Drought hits sugar production
NZPA Suva A five-month drought is threatening to halve Fiji’s sugar production this year. The chief executive of the Fiji Sugar Corporation, Mr Rasheed Ali, has said if the drought continues he estimates this year’s crop would be only 280,000 tonnes, compared with 500,000 last year. The drought had already hit the planting of the 1984 crop, only 8 pr cent of expected planting actually having been completed, he said. Fiji’s sugar crop was severely damaged by Hurricane Oscar in early March and the drought set in immediately after.
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Press, 2 August 1983, Page 27
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