THIS?COUNTRY HAS experienced its worst sugar crop yield in living memory.
The last canes will be collected today and John Goodman, technical manager of factories, said that final projections was for about 174 000 tonnes of cane and just 17 500 tonnes of sugar, which is more than 500 tonnes short of the projected amount.
Goodman said that so far Andrews Factory had ground 80 597 tonnes of cane, which yielded 8 435 tonnes of sugar.
Portvale had ground 90 496 tonnes of cane and made 8 953 tonnes of sugar.
Barbados misses sugar cane target
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