This template depicts the Tonga Kava value chain. It starts with the key stages post - harvesting: cleaning and drying, pounding with iron, packaging, and marketing. Farmers sell dry kava to kava processors. They also pay kava pounders to pound the dry kava. Processors sell in large volumes to domestic markets, relatives in Australia and New Zealand, and distributors of USA kava bars. Farmers can also sell in small volumes to the domestic market or send to relatives in Australia and New Zealand.
