Bridgetown.
Barbados has produced its wrost sugar crop in ever. The last canes will be collected today but according John Goodman of Barbados Sugar Industries Limited, the final prpjection are 174,000 tonnes of canes and 17,500 tonnes of sugar which is more than 500 tonnes short of the projected amount.
Goodman said that so far Andrews Factory had ground 80 597 tonnes of cane, which yielded 8 435 tonnes of sugar. Portvale had ground 90 496 tonnes of cane and made 8 953 tonnes of sugar.
'' It's certainly the lowest that I know and one probably the smallest crop the island has every had. It is sightly below what we have budgeted because we had projected about 18,500 tonnes of sugar. That is because we didn't get the amount of canes we were hoping for", says Goodman.
"We were short of canes, with the state of the industry as it is at the moment the yields are down" he added.
