PM opens new Virgin Coconut Oil Factory in Tailevu

The new Virgin Coconut Oil Factory worth $50,000 is an investment that is helping to realise government vision to open up Fiji’s farming communities to bigger markets.

This was highlighted by the Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama while officiating at the opening of the new Virgin Coconut Oil Factory in Anitioki, Daku village in Tailevu.

Bainimarama says these projects are giving farmers the chance to ramp up their production and get far more out of what they produce.

He says the reality is that our products and goods are highly demanded at home and around the world and government owe it to every farmer in Fiji to help them take full advantage of the opportunity to put their goods in markets in Fiji, throughout the Pacific and in countries many miles from our own shores.

The Prime Minister says a coconut on its own can be sold raw or made into copra, but that only scratches the surface of what that coconut can become.

He says we can add value to coconuts harvested right here in Fiji in a whole range of different ways which includes pressing them into coconut oil.

Bainimarama encouraged the villagers to be ambitious and to seize on this new opportunity to become bigger players in our national economy.