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Bitter harvest as dry spell squeezes sugar cane farmers
2016-02-08 08:11:44| Sugar Industry News
SA WILL produce its smallest sugar cane crop in 21 years as the industry battles the countrys driest spell on record, squeezing growers.
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Tanzania sugar project leaves bitter taste for farmers caught up in land disputes
2015-10-21 13:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Ariel Zirulnick: Per Carstedt, executive chairman of the Swedish company Agro EcoEnergy, has a vision for a shrubby tract of land on the north Tanzanian coast. Under his firms plan, farmers who once depended on subsistence work will earn wages on a sugarcane plantation or from selling sugarcane they grow to a planned processing facility. The factory will process sugar for export as well as for ethanol. The fields will be crisscrossed with irrigation canals and treated with a mix of organic and synthetic fertiliser....
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The bitter reality of sugar vs syrup
2015-10-11 00:20:31| Food - Topix.net
After years of bickering, US sugar companies and their rivals, the makers of high-fructose corn syrup, are going to trial over what exactly constitutes a "natural" sweetener. Billions of dollars are at stake.
The bitter reality of sugar vs syrup
2015-10-10 06:50:21| Agriculture - Topix.net
After years of bickering, US sugar companies and their rivals, the makers of high-fructose corn syrup, are going to trial over what exactly constitutes a "natural" sweetener. Billions of dollars are at stake.
Bitter sugar story
2015-06-01 08:56:10| Sugar Industry News
Of recent, the media has been awash with stories depicting a lack of competitiveness of Uganda\'s agricultural sector vis-a-vis other countries visited by Ugandan progressive farmers. The American Chamber of Commerce in Uganda organised an expo in Kampala dubbed Generation Agripreneur: Shaping the next 25 years of Ugandan agri-business\' with lessons on the traits of the typical American farmer. What the stories inform the public is that despite Uganda enjoying a Comparative Advantage GOD\'s NATURAL BLESSING\' relative to other countries, agricultural productivity remains low. The stories contribute to the current debate on Global Value Chains and Competition; the Name of the Game Today. The pressure of competition is being felt due to the globalisation of industries, as they strive to create and capture value across processes that are dispersed in space and time through coordinated value chains (VCs).
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