CEO of Sugar Cane Growers Council
Jagannath Sami was appointed to as the Chief Executive of the Sugar Cane Growers Council of Fiji in 2000. He owed appointment to the 16 Fiji Cane Growers Association (FCGA) and the 8 Government appointed members who together formed a majority in the Council. (The National Farmers Union (NFU) had 21 members).
He used unconventional methods to assist farmers by directly approaching the Great Council of Chiefs (Fiji)|GCC],taking a Delegation of the Cane Growers Council and madesubmissions to help solve the country’s land lease problems, claiming that political leaders had politicised the land issue and could not resolve the problem.
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