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Extending The Sugar Crop
posted (July 6, 2015)
Tomorrow was supposed to be the end of the 2014-2015 cane crop, but thousands of tonnes of sugar cane would have been left sitting in the field, which would have caused some farmers to risk financial ruin due to their bank commitments.

So, after a number of pleas to the Sugar Industries Control Board and the Ministry of Agriculture, the Government representatives collaborated with the factory owners to delay the close of the season. The Deputy Prime Minister told the press this morning in Orange Walk that this should allow farmers with cane in their fields an opportunity deliver and collect on their investment:

When the season does actually close, we'll will tell you all about it.

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