Category: Root crops

Lines of pineapples run along cocoa trees, while pepper is grown in and around mango orchards. These crops as well as fruit trees are marked with coloured paper on a cardboard model of a farm. Working with farm models is how Francois Japiot and his team at the Chambre d’ Agriculture de Nouvelle-Caledonie (CANC) promote […]

With Taveuni popularly known as the Garden Island of Fiji, it therefore follows that Tutu Rural Training Centre (TRTC) can very justifiably be a garden school. Tour Tutu and you will very quickly notice that such a description is not too far off the mark, for the Centre’s 480 hectares of land is a sanctuary […]