The anxiety and financial pain caused by the delayed sugar harvest are being felt in the north of Barbados.
Larry Warren, owner of the historic St Nicholas Abbey and the 225-acre plantation surrounding it, said that his fields were in such “a terrible condition” that whenever the crop starts the yield is likely to be “50 to 60 per cent of what it would be normally”.
St Nicholas has a rum distillery and has been reaping and grinding ten tonnes of its sugar cane a week to make the spirit. Warren said this was just one tenth of the full acreage.
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