The Ministry of Lands Permanent Secretary, Josefa Caniogo has revealed that the Ministry has secured and designated 107 parcels of idle/unutilized native land comprising a total area of 10,529.8945 hectares.
While speaking at the Fiji Land Bank Landowners Trustees Workshop, Caniogo also revealed that the Ministry of Lands has collated a total revenue of $9,418,216 for their leases to‑date.
Caniogo says that the Land-use Division has undertaken an ambitious range of conceptual planning for most of their unleased designated land in their effort to alleviate uncertainties in terms of tenure securities that has plagued a majority of their customary landowners.
He adds that aligned to the five years and twenty years development plan, a seventy‑seven residential lot is currently developed and constructed in Nadi to boost landowner confidence where government will continue to support landowners to develop residential lots on I Taukei land that will increase the availability of housing lots and at the same time ensure profit-making opportunities for landowners.
Caniogo also told the landowners present that he believes the various sessions and topics of the consultation workshop are adequate to address the issues of concerns they may have on finance, development and land designations.
He also urged all participants to give objective and careful consideration to sensitive matters and to the other items of deliberations and in open discussions and willing cooperation solve mutual problems in the best interest of landowners.
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