Fijian landowners have expressed increasing dissatisfaction with the way Native Land Trust Board takes decisions about their land according to the National Council for Building a Better Fiji's consultation document which hit the streets from today.

According to the document, many agricultural native leases are not renewed and many tenants have been forced to leave their homes and move into squatter settlements.

The consultation document further stated that some of the formerly leased lands lie idle and this means everyone is poorer, not only the tenants but also the owners of the land who now no longer earn anything from their land.

It went on to say that there also had been a lack of appreciation and effective leadership by the Great Council of Chiefs in addressing the problems of the country as a whole.

The views of the people will be taken on the consultation document from today after which a People's Charter will be drawn up. The deadline for the presentation of the Charter to President Ratu Josefa Iloilo is in October this year.