Coconut Oil Comeback Changing Lives in Fiji
Pacific FIJI, leaders in gourmet quality Virgin Coconut Oil, are establishing new award-winning methods of producing the highly popular coconut oil while strongly empowering isolated local indigenous communities in Fiji, paving the way of future development for the industry.
Suva, South Pacific Islands of FIJI, December 2, 2015 (Newswire.com) - "It's going to be very beneficial to our community in the sense that it will be another extra income for the families" says Jone Katoni, Island executive of Pacific FIJI, explaining how this project could deliver important social and economic benefits for local villagers.
Based across numerous coconut communities, Pacific FIJI announced this
week that it is raising funds of $100,000AUD via a crowd-funding campaign on Kickstarter to continue the development of their new system and release their first batch of their latest invention. Official release date of products is set at July 2016 with planned development commencing at the start of 2016.
"It's going to be very beneficial to our community in the sense that it will be another extra income for the families" says Jone Katoni, Island executive of Pacific FIJI, explaining how this project could deliver important social and economic benefits for local villagers.
Jone Katoni, Island Executive of Pacific FIJI
This move is greatly shifting the industrialization of Virgin Coconut Oil
into a more carbon-neutral, future friendly and sustainable industry where villages are able to work together as a community to create these products. This new method allows workers to earn up to Eight times higher incomes than working with traditional copra, while producing a far superior product in comparison to traditional industrial Virgin Coconut Oil.
This has empowered and provided much needed employment within a number of villages throughout these Islands, without the need to migrate into urban areas to seek employment.
Pacific FIJI was setup in the South Pacific Islands of FIJI in 2015 in collaboration with Australian-born Dominic Lewandowski and various coconut communities where immediate early traction has been enjoyed with its vision of providing social change while remaining sensitive to culture and the local environment.
Company video, crowd-funding page and more information can be found at:
http://www.pacificfiji.com
Additional media available upon request.