date:Nov 07, 2012
Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, Honorable Roger Clarke, says despite the expected downturn in the sugar industry, due to the passage of Hurricane Sandy, stakeholders must rely less on importation and increase production as a means of saving the sector.
We ought to be thinking about producing sugar for the export market, and to satisfylocal demand. The price we get for local sugar is great, and anybody who believes that we are going to get cheap sugar from abroad to sell and make a profit