Fiji Industry
Sugar production is Fiji’s most important industry, even though bottled mineral water has passed on sugar as the largest export product. Sugar is the country’s most important barley crop.
Even at the end of the 2000s, around 200,000 Fijians were estimated to have their income from sugar production directly or indirectly.
However, the relative importance of the sugar industry has gradually diminished; sugar’s share of export income has fallen from 40 percent in 1994 to 14 percent in 2015.
- According to ABBREVIATIONFINDER, FJ stands for the country of Fiji in geography.
The old sugar mills are out of date and in poor condition due to insufficient investment. The problems are partly due to falling world market prices and unclear lease terms that have caused many sugar growers to give up.
The clothing industry is also in need of modernization. When a favorable trade agreement with the United States expired in 2005, the clothing industry’s share of exports fell rapidly.
Coconut oil is manufactured and exported. Fish processing has grown stronger since the 2000s. Fiji also has a significant forest industry.
- COUNTRYAAH: List of top trading partners of Fiji. Includes countries that imported most shipments from and exported most goods to the country.
2020
June
Fiji declares itself free from the corona virus
June 5
Fiji declares the nation free of the corona virus after the last known patient has been declared healthy. The Republic has only had 18 confirmed cases of coronas infected residents.
April
Bainimarama takes over the post of foreign minister
April 17
In connection with a government transformation, Prime Minister Bainimarama also takes over the post of Foreign Minister.
Suva is quarantined
April 3
Prime Minister Bainimarama orders Suva to be isolated in an attempt to prevent the spread of the new corona virus sars-cov-2 from the capital to the rest of the country. Fiji has at that time confirmed seven cases of the coronary infection that caused a pandemic.
2018
November
Bainimarama retains power
November 14
Prime Minister Bainimarama’s party Fiji first wins half of the vote in the parliamentary elections and can retain government power, albeit with a much smaller margin than in the 2014 election. first. Other parties are left without representation in the legislative assembly. Election day is described as calm, but turnout is lower than in the 2014 election due to heavy rainfall on Election Day. Twenty-three polling stations are closed due to bad weather. In his new government, Prime Minister Bainimarama, as before, also holds the post of Foreign Minister.
Rabuka is freed from suspicions of crime
November 12
Two days before the parliamentary elections are to be held, Sitiveni Rabuka, leader of the opposition party Sodelpa, is acquitted in a trial where he is charged with providing incorrect information about his private income and assets. This allows him to run for office in Parliament.
September
Elections are held in November
September 30th
Prime Minister Bainimarama announces parliamentary elections until November 14, 2018. It will be the second general election held since the military coup in 2006. Seven parties are running for candidates, including Fiji First and Sodelpa.
August
President Konrote re-elected
August 31st
Parliament unanimously elects Jioji Konrote as President for a second and final three-year term. The constitution stipulates that the head of state can only sit for two terms of office.
June
Sodelpas leaders are prosecuted
15 October
Opposition Party Sodelpa’s leader Sitiveni Rabuka is being charged with providing incorrect information about his private income and assets.
2017
September
Fourteen people are sentenced for separatism
September 22
A Fijian court sentenced 14 people to prison for between 1.5 and 3 years for trying to form a Christian outbreak state in the northern province of Ra, where the convicted are supposed to have built military training camps for this purpose. In most cases, the judgments are fully or partially conditional.
