Green hills and coconut palms on Vanua Levu, with a bay and mountains behind

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From the cane belt to the outer islands.

Buy, sell, finance and learn alongside Fiji's growers: sugar cane in Ba and Labasa, dalo and yaqona on Taveuni, cattle on the dry western hills. The wider REALM network has your back.

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Hills, palms and a bay · Vanua Levu. Photo: Alan & Flora Botting, CC BY-SA 2.0

Right now on the farm · Oct in Fiji

Dry season

Cooler, drier months with steady trade winds. Cane harvesting and crushing usually run from about May to December.

Plan cane harvest and haulage with your sector office and mill
Watch water supplies for stock on the drier western side
A good time for fencing, land preparation and machinery servicing

The farming year in Fiji

Wet and cyclone season (1 Nov to 30 Apr)
Dry season
Cane crushing (usually about May to December)

Cyclone season starts 01/11: 16 days to get ready. Farm cyclone plan

Next public holiday: Diwali, Monday 09/11/2026 (in 24 days). Public holidays

Farm weather

The week ahead, with farm flags.

Today and the next 7 days for five farming towns, with heavy rain, heat and spray-day wind flagged.

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Farm flags are general guides worked out from the forecast numbers only. They are not advice.

Weather data: MET Norway (CC BY 4.0). For cyclone alerts and warnings, always check the Fiji Meteorological Service.

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Farming in Fiji

Viti Levu, Vanua Levu and the islands.

Every part of Fiji farms its own way. Here is what grows where, in plain words.

Young sugar cane on a farm at Sabeto, with the Sleeping Giant range behind

Western and Central divisions

Viti Levu

The cane belt runs through Ba, Lautoka, Nadi, Sigatoka and Rakiraki, with Fiji Sugar Corporation mills at Lautoka and Rarawai (Ba). The Sigatoka Valley is known as the "Salad Bowl of Fiji".

Sugar cane
Vegetables and fruit
Cattle on the drier western hills
Rice near Navua and Nausori
Dalo and ginger in Naitasiri

More about Viti Levu

The patchwork of sugar cane fields around Labasa, seen from the air

Northern Division

Vanua Levu

Fiji’s second big island. Sugar cane grows around Labasa, served by the Labasa mill, with rice at Dreketi and coconut along the coast.

Sugar cane
Rice at Dreketi
Coconut and copra

More about Vanua Levu

Cloud drifting over the green forested slopes of Mount Uluiqalau on Taveuni

Northern and Eastern divisions

Taveuni and the outer islands

Taveuni is well known for dalo and yaqona, and Kadavu for its yaqona. On many outer islands, copra is an important source of cash.

Dalo (taro)
Yaqona (kava)
Coconut and copra

More about the islands

What Fiji grows

Dalo, yaqona, cane and cattle.

The crops and stock that keep Fiji's farms going, each with a free REALM tool.

Rows of green sugar cane rolling over the hills at Sabeto

Sugar cane Grown across western Viti Levu and around Labasa, cut in the crushing season and sent to the mill. Cane payment estimator

A bundle of dalo (taro) corms with their stems tied together for sale in Suva

Dalo (taro) A staple food and an export crop. The young leaves are cooked as rourou. Dalo planner

Yaqona (kava) mixed in a carved wooden tanoa bowl, served with a coconut-shell bilo

Yaqona (kava) Shared at ceremonies and gatherings, and a cash crop on Kadavu and Taveuni. Yaqona planner

A brown and white cow grazing on green grass in Fiji

Cattle Beef and dairy, from the dry western hills to the dairy farms of Tailevu. Livestock services

Pineapples piled high on a stall at the market in Suva

A wooden roadside stall with fruit on the counter and bundles of produce on the ground in front

How Fiji trades

Market day, the roadside stall and the mill.

Town markets. Dalo, yaqona, fruit and vegetables change hands at the municipal markets in towns like Suva, Lautoka and Nadi.
The roadside stall. Many families sell straight from the farm gate, by the road.
Cane to the mill. In the crushing season cane goes to the mill by cane train or lorry, planned with the grower's sector office.
And now online. The REALM Marketplace is an online stall for produce, stock, machinery and land, with a Listing ID buyers can search.

Start a listing Browse the marketplace

Selling for a business? Join the REALM Virtual Dealership

Made for Fiji

Free help for Fiji's farmers.

In FJ$, metric units and Fiji time. They work on your phone, even with no signal once saved.

Farming in Fiji guide

Divisions and provinces, what grows where, the wet and dry seasons, cyclone numbers and village etiquette.

Read the guide

Cane payment estimator

What your cane is worth in FJ$ after harvesting, transport and other deductions, per tonne and per hectare.

Estimate my cane

Yaqona (kava) planner

Mounds, cuttings and fertiliser for your block, side-dress and harvest dates, and dried kava from your own numbers.

Plan my yaqona

Dalo (taro) planner

Pick your variety and planting date to see when to prepare suckers, keep weeds down and harvest.

Plan my dalo

Farm loan calculator

Repayments in FJ$ weekly, fortnightly, monthly or once a year at harvest, with a year-by-year table.

Work out repayments

Farm cyclone plan

A tick-off plan for before the season, when an alert or warning comes, and after the cyclone.

Make my plan

Farm help directory

Who to ask about cane, land leases, farm loans, weather, biosecurity and crop or stock advice.

Find help

Fijian farm words

Dalo, yaqona, sevusevu, mataqali and more, explained in plain English.

See the words

What REALM does in Fiji

Land, stock, machinery and money, in one place.

The REALM Fiji app

Take the farm tools with you. No signal needed.

Put REALM Group Fiji on your phone, tablet or computer in under a minute. Free, no app store, no account. The yaqona, dalo and cane planners keep working in the plantation, on the boat and after a cyclone.

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