The Lutu Cooperative Investments Company Limited is one of the successful indigenous cooperatives in the country which exports dalo to New Zealand.

They started in 1993 where 3 villages of Lutu, Navuniyaro, and Nanukuloa got more than $12,000 a month for exporting a container of dalo to New Zealand.

Former Magistrate Eroni Sauvakacolo said the success of the cooperative in Lutu is the fact that 1,000 villagers work together.

Sauvakocolo was making a presentation at the Provincial and Tikina companies workshop organized by the capital markets development authority yesterday.

He said each family within the 3 villages receive money every month from dalo exports and the main objective of the project is to improve quality of life for members of the tikina at the individual, household and community level.

He said they are not like other provinces and tikina’s who build buildings in major cities and towns for rent, but the money from rental payments do not go down to the ordinary people.

The former Magistrate said when the program started in 1993, the committee advised the Prime Minister and the President of the Methodist Church that church, Vanua and government commitments will only be carried out either on Friday or Saturday since Monday to Thursday is dedicated to farming and household commitments. No grog drinking is allowed from Monday to Thursday.