Suka works on dream

Fiji Times - Suva,Fiji Oct.6, 2008

In the last four months, Mr Solisoli, with the help of his two brothers Ravakalou Moceituba and Pita Vesikuru planted 7000 cassava plots, 200 yaqona plants, 1000 pineapples, 3000 dalo and 160 water melons.


RA lad Suka Solisoli hopes to save enough money in the next three years to build a house and buy a carrier to transport his crops to the market.

Mr Solisoli, whose family leases a 12-acre block of land at Lomaivuna in Naitasiri, realised after attending a leadership and entrepreneurship program at the Centre for Appropriate Technology and Development that land was his biggest asset.

Mr Solisoli, 24, feels you don't have to be well schooled or a learned scholar to succeed in commerce. You just need to have the right attitude and a passion for business.

In the last four months, Mr Solisoli, with the help of his two brothers Ravakalou Moceituba and Pita Vesikuru planted 7000 cassava plots, 200 yaqona plants, 1000 pineapples, 3000 dalo and 160 water melons.

Last month Mr Solisoli earned $200 from the sale of cabbage, which he planted after completing his studies at Nadave and will harvest 1000 pineapples in December.

And this is just a part of the vast bush land that they have leased.

Mr Solisoli, who dropped out of school at Form 4, added that the the only difficult he faced was acquiring yaqona and cassava cuttings, manure and chemicals.