Sugar production for this year is down in the Caribbean and for the period 2016/17, the projected output is 406,000 tonnes.
This is according to a press release from the Sugar Association of the Caribbean following their 166th Board of Directors meeting in Barbados on May 25 to 26.
No production figure was given for the previous year but the projected output for 2016/17 is a far cry from production going back to 2004/5. By comparison, sugar production in 2004 was 703,000 tonnes and was projected to be 747,000 tonnes in 2005. Since then, reforms to the European Union (EU) sugar
