ABSTRACT
It has already been said that the main productive activity in Fiji Indian settlements was agriculture, and that the major crop in most places was sugar cane. About one million tons of cane were produced each year, giving between 110,000 and 130,000 tons of raw sugar, which were manufactured at the five mills operated by the CSR Company. 1 Towns had grown up around each mill, and most Fiji Indian settlements were in one of the mills’ hinterlands and looked to it as the last link in the chain of sugar production started in their fields. Sugar cane production was almost entirely an Indian monopoly. In 1943, Indians occupied 94 per cent of the land under cane, Fijians 3 per cent, and 3 per cent was reserved by the CSR Company for experimental and nursery purposes; 2 the proportions had changed little by 1951.
