ABSTRACT
The Fijian farmer may make use of one of two types of land; his own mataqali land, or land leased from the Company. It is difficult to be precise about the quantity of good cane land left in Fijian hands in this area. A rough judgement, based on maps which show boundaries of mataqali lands and leases, would be that not more than 1,200 acres of viable cane lands remain under mataqali administration for the six villages in Baravi listed above. In this area, cane must compete with residential requirements, with subsistence crops, and with other cash crops such as bananas; though as far as possible the villagers use cane to meet their cash needs. In addition, some of the land is owned by mataqali, members of whom live in other villages where there is no cane land, such as Korotoga, Vatukarasa, Namada, and Tagaqe. Thus the pressure on Fijian lands is intense.
