Fiji’s sugar export earnings recorded a sharp decline in 2025, according to the Reserve Bank of Fiji’s The Fijian Economy: Chart Pack – June 2026, highlighting the continued challenges facing one of the country’s traditional export industries.
The latest chart pack shows sugar export earnings falling to below $50 million in 2025, the lowest level in the nine-year period from 2017 to 2025.
The decline follows several years of stronger export performance. Sugar exports earned around $145 million in 2023 before easing to about $120 million in 2024. In contrast, export earnings in 2025 dropped by more than half compared with the previous year.
The report also indicates that sugar production continued its downward trend, falling to around 110,000 tonnes in 2025, compared with approximately 125,000 tonnes in 2024. Cane production improved slightly from 2024 levels but remained well below the highs recorded before 2020.
Another indicator of industry performance, the Tonnes of Cane to Tonnes of Sugar (TCTS) ratio, rose to its highest level in the period at around 13 in 2025. A higher TCTS ratio generally means more cane is required to produce the same amount of sugar, reflecting lower milling efficiency or reduced cane quality.
The figures underscore the ongoing pressures facing Fiji’s sugar industry, despite modest improvements in cane production, with weaker sugar output translating into significantly lower export earnings.
The data is contained in the Reserve Bank of Fiji’s The Fijian Economy: Chart Pack – June 2026, which draws on information from the Fiji Bureau of Statistics and the Fiji Sugar Corporation.
