Attorney General Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum will meet with the Labasa cane farmers at the Waiqele Secondary School tonight.
Fiji Sugar Corporation CEO Graham Clark and FSC’s Chief Operating Officer Navin Chandra will also be present.
The session will start at 6.30pm where FSC CEO Graham Clark will present the FSC’s strategy and vision to growers and stakeholders after which Chief Operating Officer, Navin Chandra will present the strategy in Hindi.
There will also be a Talanoa session with Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum.
The National Farmers Union had earlier said that none of the 10.2 million dollars government assistance has been provided to the cane growers in Labasa and this is the reason why they had decided to have a protest march last week.
Fijivillage sought clarification from the Fiji Sugar Corporation.
FSC’s Chief Operating Officer Navin Chandra has stated that out of the $10.2 million total grant given by the government, only $3.2 million went directly to pay off the loans taken by 3,949 cane growers in Viti Levu.
Chandra says on top of that, $7 million was paid off from the 4th cane payment deductions for 8,754 cane growers in Fiji.
He says $3.6 million out of this $7 million went to 2,039 Labasa growers out of the total 3,442 growers.
