Jainendra Kumar is a

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an civil servant and political leader of Indian descent. A former Director of Research in the Agriculture,

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and Land Resettlement

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, he served as a Rapporteur in the Convention on Biological Diversity in 2002. On 9 January 2007, he was appointed

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and Primary Industries in the interim

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of Commodore Frank Bainimarama. He was removed from office by the military government on 4 January 2008.

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