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December 20, 2018

It’s a bitter end for sugar as investors line up for 2019 losses

Piles of graded refined sugar sits in boxes at a lab Nikolaev, Ukraine. Picture: Vincent Mundy/Bloomberg Sugar is ending 2018 on a bitter note on signs that a price collapse could get even worse next year. […]
October 23, 2018
Pakhouse Climate Change and World Hunger

Climate change has had a negative impact on agriculture

World hunger has risen for a third consecutive year, according to the United Nations’ annual food security report. The total number of people who face chronic food deprivation has increased by 15 million since 2016. Some 821 million […]
October 23, 2018
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Sugar beans: A good harvest against the odds

Shadrack Mbele has been getting good returns from sugar bean since first planting it in 2014. Sabrina Dean visited him in the eastern Free State to find out more about his production techniques, and how he […]
October 8, 2018
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Sugar tax millions should be used for diversification in the industry

It seems only right that a tax that originates from the sugar industry should be applied to explore ways to enable this huge employer of South Africans to keep up the good work. There has been […]