Ginger Production Constraints and Future Perspectives in Fiji

Abstract

This paper talks about the constraints of ginger farming and its future perspective in Fiji. Ginger is recognized as a significant product in Fiji due to the potential the crop has for food, income benefit, and providing work to the farmers. However, the industry is facing many drawbacks. The main ginger farming constraints in Fiji viz. access to quality planting material, access to water, loss of expertise, soil-borne pathogens like Pythium soft rot and nematodes infestation, pest infestation whereby the presence of scale insect intercepts with the requiring quarantine interventions, unsatisfactory result of pre-planting hot water dip treatment, land and differentiation in rural Fiji (Land tenure) and exporting fresh ginger to high market prices explains how the local ginger produced are not attaining high niche markets.