The Minister for Commerce, Business Development and Investment, Tomasi Vuetilovoni, said the potential in this area was realised increasingly in a message to a regional workshop on honey standards held in Rakiraki last March.

Four young carpenters from Nadroga want to cash in on the growing honey industry by making beehives for farmers and have produced their first batch of 10 hives in a project hosted by the National Youth Training Centre at Sigatoka. These young men are Peceli Dere, of Nadrau, Josese Nabuta, of Nanuku, and Meli Daumeke and Tomasi Cokula, both of Nasaucoko.