Tags: Trade Union.
Kisan Sangh was the first farmers’ union formed in Fiji on 27 November 1937. This was the result of one man’s determination to improve the plight of Fiji’s Indian cane farmers. Ayodhya Prasad had arrived from India in 1929 and after a stint as a teacher took up cane farming and thus obtained firsthand experience of the problems faced by Fiji Indian cane farmers.