Fiji
A web-based facility for storing and access of sub-national agricultural statistical data files from the country source. National focal points are responsible for maintaining the database.
The Fiji Island group, located about two-thirds of the way from Hawaii to New Zealand, is an archipelago of 332 islands endowed with forest, mineral and fish resources. It is one of the most developed of the Pacific island economies, but Fiji still has a large subsistence sector. Natural resources are timber, fish, gold, copper, offshore oil potential and hydropower. Sugar exports and a growing tourist industry (300,000 to 400,000 tourists annually) are the major sources of foreign exchange. Sugar processing makes up one-third of industrial activity.
Agriculture (sugarcane, livestock, forestry and subsistence farming) and fishing remain important, accounting for about 20 percent of GDP in the 1990s, but declining to 16.2 percent by 2002. Sugar is still the most important crop, although its proportion of agricultural GDP fell from 46 percent in 1994 to 29.8 percent in 2001. Timber and fish (mainly tuna) have become increasingly important in recent years. Copra, ginger and coconut oil are also exported. Other crops include bananas, rice and other cereals, vegetables, pineapples and other tropical fruits. Agricultural imports increased at an annual rate of 1.0 percent from 1993 to 2003 while agricultural exports decreased 2.5 percent annually. Wheat is the main agricultural import, followed by mutton and lamb, dry whole milk and Soya bean oil. Sugar, water ice, roots and tubers are the agricultural exports.
Land Use (2002) |
Total area (1 827 000 ha)
Arable & perm. crops (15.6%) |
Population (2003) |
Total population (839 000)
Agricultural population (38.5%) |
GDP/GNI (2004) |
Total GDP (1 878 million US$)
GNI per capita (US$2 690)
Agricultural GDP (16.2% in 2002) |
Agricultural Trade (2003) |
Imports (US$158.2 million)
Exports (US$198.1 million) |
Nutrition
(2000–2002) |
Per caput DES (2 895 kcal/day)
Percent of animal products in DES (17.8%) |
Contact address of Food and Agricultural Statistics in Fiji
Economic Planning and Statistics Division,
Ministry of Agriculture, Sugar and Land Resettlement
Private Mail Bag, Raiwaqa
Suva
Tel: (679) 3384233
Fax: (679) 3385048
Email: mledua@govnet.gov.fj
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