Bhan Pratap Singh reappointed as FSC CEO

Bhan Pratap Singh has been reappointed as the Fiji Sugar Corporation Limited Chief Executive Officer for a further 3 years, effective from next Monday.

FSC Board Chairman Nitya Nand says Singh is a science graduate of the University of the South Pacific with an MBA, who has been the CEO of FSC since March of 2021, after a decade as the CEO of Pacific Fishing Company. Nand stressed the importance its Board and the Minister of Sugar, Charan Jeath Singh, placed on maintaining continuity in the leadership of the corporation at both current operational and long-term strategic levels.

Nand says given his nearly 20 years of experience in FSC, they have confidence in his ability to guide the industry through these very difficult times and to help meet its multiple challenges in finding appropriate solutions.

Nand says amongst them would be his leadership and responsibility to improve factory performances, targeting higher efficiencies, reduction in costs, achieving more sustainable social and financial outcomes together with a comprehensive effort to increase cane production.

The FSC Board Chair says during his working career of 30 years, Singh has been intimately involved with manufacturing and processing operations at the highest executive levels.

He says in their view, this has prepared him adequately to lead FSC into its next chapter of restructuring, identifying cost-effective technology, mechanisation, diversification and introduction of commercial opportunities through more value-added products like ethanol, syrup, refined sugar and cogeneration, amongst many others.

Nand says coming from a cane farming background, he understands very well the pulse of the sugar community, their many hardships, aspirations, expectations and respects the deep partnership that underpins the relationships of all the stakeholders.

He says after the brutal degradation and severe neglect of the industry over the last two decades, its revival requires an urgent, fresh dose of energy, vision, and direction.

The Chair says Singh has been handed the most challenging job in the country, for which he will be held accountable both in delivery and direction but they also recognise that in fulfilling that, he needs the support not just of the Board, government, the FSC team of 2,000 and 11,000 cane farmers but also that of the entire country.