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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 t...

Dec 29, 2020 …But Cane Delivery Drastically Decreased This Year The cane supply for milling has been very slow, with farmers citing a range of reasons, including the poor state of feeder roads and some uncertainty over the start date. Up to ten o’clock this morning, one hundred and thirty-seven trucks made cane delivery to the factory which amounted to two thousand, six hundred tons of cane. McLachlan emphasized the requirement for steady cane supply to keep the mill operating. He says that the factory cannot run effectively with less than five thousand, five hundred tons of cane...