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More commercial oriented farmers needed

November 21, 2019 5:39 am

Fiji’s agriculture sector needs farmers who envision commercial success and have ambitious farming aspirations to further the sector.

Agriculture Minister Dr Mahendra Reddy highlighted the need for able-bodied and knowledgeable commercial oriented farmers within the sector.

Addressing the 23 graduates of the Navuso Agricultural Technical Institute during the “Training of Future Commercial & Replacement Farmers’’ workshop, he urged participants to be ambassadors of the Ministry and drive lead the sector grow.

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Assurances were also given to the students that markets for their crops would be provided, so long as they planted according to market demands and produced crops such as yaqona, dalo, cassava, yam, duruka, bongo chillies, and rice.

Dr Reddy also advised young farmers to be responsible and to reinvest profits into their farms to increase production levels.