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Created 02 July 2015

Lately, there have been quite some media outrages of unusual marriage courts everywhere, spreading like wildfire and going viral. Meanwhile in Nadi, Fiji, TV, newspaper and social media gurus scrambled to catch the latest show of a different kind: Chef – Farmer marriage. And I am here with a team reporting live for the Pacific Community AgriTourism Week. The third day of this five days’ event has been dubbed as the “Chef-Farmer dating day” by the organisers. And on Friday 3rd July, they are getting married. This matrimony was anticipated, and brings fresh hope to the Pacific people since it has been a long overdue issue. So, no one has a good reason to object to it.

The Pacific AgriTourism partners behind this matrimony are the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC), the South Pacific Tourism Organisation (SPTO), the University of the South Pacific (USP), the Technical Centre for Agriculture and Rural Cooperation (CTA), the Intra-ACP Agricultural Policy Programme (Intra-APP), the Pacific Islands Private Sector Organisation (PIPSO) and other national agencies. They will ensure this is done correctly and according to plan, and is taking place here in Danarau, at the Sofitel Hotel. Once the vows are sealed tomorrow, it would become something for the Pacific people to celebrate, as the chefs and farmers Pacific-wide would be doing what they do best – putting our farmers’ foods on the chefs’ menus!

See more via CTA's blog: http://blogs.cta.int/2015/07/02/perfect-wedding-ever-largest-ocean/