While milk production in Fiji is growing, a senior industry official says tuberculosis remains a problem.
Chair of the Fiji Co-operative Dairy Company, Simon Cole, says the industry has lost about 5000 cattle to TB in the last five years.
He says the problem has also affected Fiji beef farmers because of the oversupply of cull-cows from dairy herds.
Mr Cole says the co-operative is working with the Fiji and New Zealand governments to help farmers improve their calf-rearing and build back their herds.
Photo: RNZ / Richard Tindiller
