The Fiji Sugar Ministry is working on doubling the national target for land allocated to cane farming from next year.
FBC reports the director for sugar, Viliame Gucake, says the government has endorsed an action plan promoting an increase of new agricultural land for sugar cane by three thousand hectares per year till 2017.
He says it will begin with six thousand hectares of new cane land next year.
Mr Gucake says the main reason for increasing new cane areas is the long term sustainability of the industry, and preparing the sugar industry for when the European Union quota expires.
In order to reach targets the Fiji Sugar Corporation has started to lease out land to plant its own sugar cane.
