Category: Root crops

The coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic brought Fiji’s hospitality, aviation and tourism industry to its knees in 2020 forcing nearly 40,000 workers mainly on the western side of the main island of Viti Levu to look elsewhere to support their families. For many of these workers, it was the only career they knew and devoted themselves to […]

The Cook Islands and kuru (breadfruits) share a long and interesting history. It was the English explorer Captain James Cook who was the first European to navigate through these groups of islands in the eastern Pacific Ocean, and it was in one of those voyages that Cook stumbled upon the humble tropical food crop in […]