[Source: Ministry of Women, Children and Social Protection - Fiji/ Facebook]

Minister for Women, Children, and Social Protection, Lynda Tabuya, attended a consultation with Minister for Agriculture and Waterways, Vatimi Rayalu, and his executive team yesterday.

The objective of the inter-agency consultation was to discuss the possibility of engaging social welfare recipients earmarked to be assisted through the proposed Welfare Graduation Program in agriculture-based assistance programs as a tool to reduce poverty.

Tabuya says the initiative was one of several livelihood creation options being pursued by the Ministry to assist approximately 500 recipients of the Family Assistance Scheme.

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Minister for Agriculture Vatimi Rayalu says that the Agriculture Ministry implemented an assistance program whereby recipients were assisted through the provision of farmland, relevant training, agro-inputs, farming implements, and access to the market, with monitoring systems in place to ensure the recipients achieve their targets.

[Source: Ministry of Women, Children and Social Protection – Fiji/ Facebook]

The inter-agency consultation was attended by the Minister for Agriculture, Assistant Minister for Agriculture, Tomasi Tunabuna, Permanent Secretary for Agriculture, Dr. Andrew Tukana, and Deputy Secretary for Agriculture, Dr. Tekini Nakidakida.

[Source: Ministry of Women, Children and Social Protection – Fiji/ Facebook]