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Her personal research into her family’s history – focusing on her Indian ancestors, brought as indentured labourers to work on Fiji’s sugar plantations under the British empire – is ...
Fiji's all important ... a waste product created when the sugar juice is pressed. The state-run sugar organization also plans to build its first ethanol plantation at the Rarawai sugar mill ...
Estimates of the number of Pacific Islanders captured by blackbirders and forced to work on cotton and sugar plantations in Fiji and Australia range from 61,610 to more than 100,000. Public domain ...
It was 1879 when British colonialists began transporting Indian indentured labourers to sugar cane plantations in Fiji, 7,000 miles from home, where they received very low or no salary for their ...
Sugar has a longer history. 130 years ago, British colonial rulers first brought Indians to Fiji to work in the country’s sugar plantations. While its status has declined in the past two decades, Fiji ...
An expert on Fiji's sugar industry says a strike by sugar workers later this year could cripple the industry, right in the middle of the cane crushing season. The general secretary of the Sugar ...
Fiji's vital sugar industry will collapse within two years unless the government quits stalling over a restructuring plan, an industry chief has said. John McFadden, managing director of Fiji Sugar, ...
Distilled and aged for a time in Fiji, Plantation Isle of Fiji Double Barrel ... The terroir of the sugar cane, the way the rum is made and distilled, aging conditions and proof all affect the ...