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Sugar Research Australia officially launched
2013-08-05 09:14:17| Sugar Industry News
Sugar industry leaders together in Mackay to launch the new industry owned research and development company.
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North Queensland sugar crush the best in years
2013-08-05 09:14:17| Sugar Industry News
Australia's largest sugarcane growing region is having its most productive crush in years.
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Importation of cheap sugar worries millers
2013-08-05 09:14:17| Sugar Industry News
Nine sugar factories in the country are in a crisis after accumulating more than 20,000 tonnes of the commodity which they are unable to sell due to suspected dumping of duty-free sugar from Uganda and Tanzania.
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Sugar dispute hangs in the balance
2013-08-05 09:14:17| Sugar Industry News
A meeting at the Ministry of Labour and Social Security on Friday failed to resolve the dispute between Pan Caribbean Sugar Company and its unionised workers protesting against planned redundancies at the factories.
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Sugar & Slavery: The Making of an Empire
2013-08-05 09:14:17| Sugar Industry News
At the turn of the 18th century, the intense demand for sugar in Britain, meant that those in the West Indian colonies charged with supplying this collective sweet-tooth could no longer keep up. As such, what had until then been a comparative trickle of Africans being taken from their homes in the West of the continent and forced into a life of slavery, became a deluge.
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