The Fiji Cane Growers Association has blamed the Fiji Sugar Corporation for the more than 1,000 tonnes of harvested sugar cane lying rotting in the Ba area.
Indigenous landowners at Sorokoba have blocked the railway line to the Ba mill because they say they want the Fiji Sugar Corporation or FSC to negotiate a new lease and pay them rental and compensation.
The landowners say the lease for the land on which the railway line runs expired in April and there's been no action.
The General Secretary of the Fiji Cane Growers association, Bala Dass, says the prime minister, Laisenia Qarase, who is also the Minister of Sugar, must address the problem.
He says sugar cane farmers and landowners have been let down by the FSC.
"The FSC knows very well that the lease is expiring in April, and they were sitting quiet, they should have started negotiations last year. But, well, as I said, it's unfortunate that nobody bothered and now farmers are suffering."
Bala Dass.
The Fiji Sugar Corporation could not be reached for comment.
