The head of the private sugar growers organisation warned on Friday to expect a decrease in sugar production next year, with dry weather over the summer blamed for the projected decline.
The development has prompted the Chairman of Barbados Sugar Industry Limited (BSIL), Mark Sealy, to suggest urgent changes to crop timing and farm efficiency to cushion the impact.
Sealy told Barbados TODAY: “Everybody is working very hard to put on a good crop for 2026. Obviously, we have had some poor weather in the normally wet months of June, July, August, September.”
“We started to get a bit of rain now, which will hel
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