Karan encourages landowners to participate

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Karan encourages landowners to participate

GETTING landowners to participate in sugarcane cultivation could provide a huge boost to the sugar sector, says Sugar Ministry permanent secretary Yogesh Karan.

“We are working on leases which have expired and are holding discussions with the landowners to see whether they are interested in leasing the land back to farmers or whether they are interested in cultivating the land themselves,” he said.

“Under the joint-venture scheme with the Fiji Sugar Corporation which we are encouraging, we are working with landowners to guide them as they enter the sugar industry.

“And what we have found is that the model we have is proving to be quite attractive for them.”

Mr Karan said under the joint-venture scheme, landowners only had to agree that their land could be used to plant sugar cane.

“FSC does everything — the miller invests in cultivation, planting and maintenance of fields and even takes care of harvesting and transport.

“Once the cane payments are due, the FSC deducts all the costs and pays the profits to the landowner. We have a number of joint-venture farms in both the north and west cane planting areas and they have been very successful. We hope more landowners come on board and take advantage of this scheme.”

The FSC has targeted a four million tonne crop under its strategic action plan 2018-2022.

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