Although Government is yet to disclose the outcome of the sugar harvest which concluded in the first week of June, private sugar cane farmers are reporting that they produced 66 000 tonnes of sugar cane this year.In an interview with Barbados TODAY on Tuesday, Chairman of the Barbados Sugar Industry Limited (BSIL) Mark Sealy said while that was slightly less than what they reaped in 2021, they produced more cane per acre than last year.He said this improvement was a high point for the problem-plagued harvest that started late and resulted in thousands of canes rotting.“Within the constraints that we had for the crop, the private farmers did quite well. But we were disappointed that we started the crop a month late and that created a lot of rotten cane. Then, of course, the factory broke down for two weeks and then we also had two weeks of unseasonal rains. So you’re talking about two months basically where we could not cut cane,” he said.
