Dec 29, 2020
2020-2021 Sugar Cane Crop Season Commences…
The 2020-2021 sugar cane crop season commenced on Monday, December twenty-eighth, but, unlike previous years, it was without festivities and fanfare. There was, however, growing tension between cane farmers and the miller over production estimates. As we reported on Thursday, A.S.R./B.S.I. was prepared to received cane delivery on December fourteenth, but farmers had expressed concerns on their abilities to deliver cane given the floods. The quality of the cane was also a concern. The date was pushed back to Monday, despite the concerns of hundreds of cane farmers who believe that under the agreed production estimates more than two thousand, seven hundred cane farmers would be negatively affected. An intense meeting was held on Sunday where the associations indicated that they were not willing to start the crop season with the estimates as previously presented. In fact, the farmers had warned that they would hold