THE PICTURE TODAY This is the picture today: Fiji produces most of its own food, such as rice, vegetables, milk, meat, fruit. Its export crops are sugar cane, coconuts, bananas and pineapples, with some peanuts, ginger and tropical fruits. The other important activity is gold-mining. When the indentured labour system ended, the Colonial Sugar Refining Company, which owns and leases large tracts of land, rented out a few acres each to the Indians, who thus became tenant farmers. Though the Fijians grow a little sugar cane, most of the production is in the hands of the Indians, half of whom have land bought or leased from the Fijian tribes, and half of whom are tenants of the Colonial Sugar Refining Company.
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Te Ao Hou, Summer 1953, Page 29
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121THE PICTURE TODAY Te Ao Hou, Summer 1953, Page 29
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