They are not just here to produce sugar. Not at all. Salima Sugar Company—on the shores of Lake Malawi in the central region—is engaging itself in a project that will not only advantage thousands of Malawians who fight for energy – in as far as cooking is concerned – but also help in easing deforestation that is proliferated by the citizenry’s overdependence on charcoal. Workers at Salima Sugar Company They have, full throttle, gone into production of briquettes – made from bagasse. And, these are effective – and can replace charcoal that is responsible for more than 80 percent of wanton cutting down of trees in the country.