{"id":181976,"date":"2025-12-13T14:38:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T14:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/181976\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T14:38:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T14:38:11","slug":"sugar-giant-powers-ras-rural-economy-fbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/181976\/","title":{"rendered":"Sugar giant powers Ra\u2019s rural economy \u2013 FBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GSR.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>[Source: Fiji Government\/ Facebook]<\/p>\n<p>Shiv Raj Associates, part of the JS Raj Group, runs Fiji\u2019s largest cane harvesting and transport operation.<\/p>\n<p>It supports thousands of farmers and their families in Ra.<\/p>\n<p>Assistant Minister for Justice Ratu Josaia Niudamu acknowledged the business\u2019s growth.<\/p>\n<p>Article continues after advertisement<\/p>\n<p>He noted that from a small Namuimada shop in 1952, the group expanded into ShopPlus supermarkets and community markets, with sugar remaining its core.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt also operates the largest cane harvesting and transportation operation in the country, contributing significantly to supporting the sugar cane industry, a backbone of livelihoods for many families in Fiji. While we continue to grow as a business, we have never forgotten our roots or the people who helped us rise.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At the Nalawa complex opening, Ratu Josaia commended cane workers, saying their support is vital and success means nothing without uplifting local communities.<\/p>\n<p>Despite challenges in Fiji\u2019s sugar industry, the Minister adds that Shiv Raj shows that private initiative can sustain rural economies and help farming families.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"viti-plus-link-article\" href=\"https:\/\/www.viti.plus\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stream the best of Fiji on VITI+.  Anytime.  Anywhere.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[Source: Fiji Government\/ Facebook] Shiv Raj Associates, part of the JS Raj Group, runs Fiji\u2019s largest cane harvesting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181977,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[138,219,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-181976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}