More than 100,000 Kava Famers

More than 100,000 kava farmers, processors and dealers—including those occupying villages, homes and small stands—would have to apply for a license to sell the product when the Cabinet-approved Kava Council Bill is passed in Parliament this year. The bill would place control of the kava industry in the hands of the Fiji Kava Council chairman Ratu Josateki Nawalowalo…the bill was drafted so there could be uniformity in the processing, packaging and caring of yaqona plants before it being consumed locally and exported overseas.

—FijiTimes.com, 4/26/05