Crops Rated
Crop suitability ratings were determined for each soil map unit defined for Fiji for the following crops:
Root crops
Cassava, Ginger, Dalo, Horeseradish, Peanuts, Potato, Sweet Potato (Kumala), Tumeric, Yagona (Kava) and Yam
Vegetables
Broad Beans, Carrot, Capsicum, Chillies, Chinese Cabbage, Cowpea, Cucumber, Eggplant, English Cabbage, Gourd, Long Beans, Mung Bean, Okra, Onion, Pepper, Pimento, Pigeon Pea, Pumpkin, Spinach, Squash, Tomato, Urd, Winged Beans, Zucchini
Tree crops
Avocado, Breadfruit, Cashew, Cinnamon, Cloves, Cocoa, Coconut, Coffee (arabica), Coffee (robusta) Durian, Grapefruit, Guava, Jackfruit, Jatropha, Lime, Lychee, Macadamia, Mandarin, Mango, Mangosteen, Noni, Nutmeg, Oil palm, Orange, Rubber, Sago, Soursop, Tung Oil
Other crops
Banana, Cardamon, Daruka, Maize, Manila Hemp, Papaya, Pineapple, Rice (upland), Rice (irrigated), Sisal, Sorgham, Soya Bean, Sugar, Sunflower, Tea, Vanilla, Watermelon
Crop Suitability Class rating system
Class 1 Highly suitable
Without significant limitations.
Class 2 Moderately suitable
Suitable but has limitations that reduce productivity or increase the inputs needed to sustain productivity.
Class 3 Marginally suitable
Limitations so severe that benefits are reduced and/or the inputs needed to sustain production are increased so that this cost is only marginally justified.
Class 4 Not suitable