Jainendra Kumar is a Fijian civil servant and political leader of Indian descent. A former director of research in the Agriculture, Sugar and Land Resettlement Ministry, he served as a Rapporteur in the Convention on Biological Diversity in 2002. On 9 January 2007, he was appointed Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry and Primary Industries in the interim Cabinet of Commodore Frank Bainimarama. He was removed from office by the military government on 4 January 2008.
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- "SUMMARY REPORT ON THE STATUS OF THE NOMINATION OF THE RELEVANT NATIONAL FOCAL POINTS, COMPETENT NATIONAL AUTHORITIES, POINTS OF CONTACT FOR EMERGENCY MEASURES AND BIOSAFETY CLEARING-HOUSE FOCAL POINTS" (PDF). Convention on Biological Diversity. p. 9. Retrieved 5 June 2010.
- "More ministers join interim Cabinet". Fiji Times Online. Retrieved 5 June 2010.
- "Removal shocks Kumar". Fiji Times Online. Retrieved 5 June 2010.
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