Anarieta's heart is in Fiji
Elenoa Baselala
EVEN though she has spent the last two decades overseas, Anarieta Bose always had her heart in Fiji.
Her patriotism brought her back to the country to retire two years ago. But she is definitely not in retirement.
Ms Bose is a director of Lucas Portable Sawmill, a company that seems to be moving from strength to strength. Initially, they the only agents selling the sawmills.
"But we realised that we need to diversify because the resource owners simply did not have the funds to buy the sawmills," Ms Bose said.
From next week, the company will embark on its first-ever project with resource owners in the Nausori Highlands.
It is a project with the Ministry of Forest and the Fiji Pine Trust.
Because of the inability of the resource owners to access funding to purchase sawmills, the company will saw the timber for three months, following that the villagers will own the sawmill.
"Our portable sawmill is easy to set up, it takes only five minutes," Ms Bose said.
"It is user friendly and we will offer a one year warranty, we will train the villagers and service the sawmill too."
The cost of the sawmill that would be used by the Nausori Highlands is about $45,000.
"We worked it out, the cost per cubic metre of timber and it would take up to three months of milling."
Ms Bose said it had involved a lot of work with the involvement of various authorities such as the Health Ministry (health inspectors), Labour Ministry for occupational he¡¡alth safety and the Environment Department for the environmental impact assessment.
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