The New Zealand Aid Agency NZAID has rejected reports from Fiji that it has provided around a million US dollars in assistance for the country's sugar industry.
Fijilive has reported that NZAID is preparing a relief package to help salvage the ailing industry.
It quotes the Fiji Sugar Cane Growers Council's chief executive, Surendra Sharma, saying he had written to the Australian and New Zealand Governments, and the European Union seeking assistance for an industry he described as dying a slow death.
He says New Zealand responded favourably with a one million US dollar facility for rehabilitation.
But NZAID says the reports are wrong.
An official says New Zealand has provided nearly two million US dollars in flood relief for Fiji, but says contrary to media reports, New Zealand has made no commitment to support the sugar industry in Fiji or the Fiji Sugar Cane Growers Council as part of the flood recovery work.
