The sugar industry is battling with ongoing and emerging challenges - PM Prasad questions decision to sell non productive assets of FSC in depressed economic environment The sugar industry is battling with ongoing and emerging challenges - PM Prasad questions decision to sell non productive assets of FSC in depressed economic environment Saturday 05/06/2021 Prime Minister and Minister for Sugar, Voreqe Bainimarama and National Federation Party Leader Professor Biman Prasad. [Image: Parliament of Fiji ] Prime Minister and Minister for Sugar, Voreqe Bainimarama says as much as the ministry had anticipated it could not reach the season target of 2 million tonnes of cane from 2012 to 2016.