| Agroforestry in the Pacific Islands: Systems for
Sustainability (1993) | |7 Pacific Island urban agroforestry|
Problems of urban agroforestry Urban agroforesters in the
Pacific face a number of problems. Unfavourable climate, poor
soils, high cost or unavailability of land and water,
insufficient time and labour, theft, and lack of government
assistance were most commonly mentioned. Problems of drought are
severe in Port Moresby, and include high cost of water, distance
of community taps, and water cancellations in Morata, and fear
of City Council regulations against the use of water for
gardening purposes between 8.00 a.m. and 6.00 p.m. Restrictions
on the use of water in gardens are also imposed during periods
of extended drought in Fiji. Urban gardeners commonly have to
contend with poor, infertile soils, such as the very poorly
developed rocky or stony lithosols of Port Moresby, the shallow
soils that overlay a marl substrate in Suva, hydromorphic soils
in low-lying areas, and the notoriously infertile