Salt is one of the important ingredients for food, fish processing and other products. The MFOR has been working with an international solar salt company in France to establish the natural solar salt facilities and potential markets to value add this potential resource in Beru Island. The team from the Geoscience Division, owner and expert of the French Solar Salt company Mr Louis Merlin to progress this important solar salt value adding project in Beru Is, Nikunau Is, Kiritimati Is and other outer islands. The team visited the solar salt project sites in Beru and then followed by a thorough discussions on the necessary cost-effective steps for the production and marketing of value-added salts from these islands. The MFOR acknowledged the World Bank funded PROP project, FAO together with the French-based solar salt company for their financial and technical assistance throughout the various stages of this project.