21 Sep 2020

Farmers who produce less than 50 tonnes of sugar cane can now access loans of up to $5000 from the Sugar Cane Growers Fund (SCGF). Fund chief executive officer Raj Sharma said the initiative was being introduced to boost Government’s micro, small a ...

21 Sep 2020

The COVID-19 crisis has pushed an increasing number of working class people into cane farming. This was the word from Sugar Cane Growers Fund (SCGF) chief executive officer Raj Sharma. He said a lot of working class people had invested part of their ...

21 Sep 2020

Manoj Kumar, a sugarcane farmer who lost his left hand while operating a mechanical harvester, received a $3,000 cheque, before Christmas Day. The 43-year-old of Seaqaqa, Macuata Province received the cheque from the Sugar Cane Growers Fund, who gave ...

02 Apr 2020

Sugar Cane Growers Fund (SCGF) received $6.046m in the cane payment paid on 1st April 2020. From the payment, SCGF has refunded $4.339m which is overall 72 percent of the payment to the growers. The rest is taken as loan repayment in terms of the con ...

20 Mar 2020

Sugar Cane Growers Funds (SCGF) advices its growers and customers that they continue to serve in terms of the funding needs and or essential needs. SCGF’s Chief Executive Officer Raj Sharma said that they have reallocated the resources outside of L ...

14 Mar 2020

79pc of sugar industry’s farmers above 50 years, says Karan SEVENTY-NINE per cent of the sugar industry’s active growers are above the age of 50, says Sugar Ministry permanent secretary Yogesh Karan.He made the remark while officiating at the lau ...

26 Feb 2020

Sugar Cane Growers Fund (SCGF) and Fiji Sugar Corporation Ltd (FSC) are committed in revitalization of the industry with all the stakeholders and in particular with the farmers. In addition to the $4million Cane Planting Grant, there is approximately ...