SUGAR DEVELOPMENT

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The Sugar Project consists of: (1) clearing about 8,000 acres of land for planting sugarcane; (2) provision of housing material, land preparation, inputs up to the first harvest and first year subsistence loans for about 400 new settlers; (3) construction of a sugar tramline extension of about 6.5 miles from Wailevu to Tambia; (4) construction and upgrading of about 17 miles of main road from Tambia to Vunimako and construction of 117 miles of farm access roads; (5) provision of sites and services for a new township at Seaqaqa; (6) construction of a road maintenance sub-depot at the Seaqaqa township; (7) loans from FDB to individual settlers and NLDC for tractors, farm implements and sugarcane transport vehicles; (8) procurement of road construction and maintenance equipment; (9) reconstruction of about 22.5 miles of seawalls with tidal gates; (10) improvement of internal drains serving about 26,400 acres of sugarcane land; (11) photogrammetric mapping of the drainage areas on Viti Levu; and (12) purchase of vehicles and construction of offices.