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Bar­ba­dos has pro­duced 96 000 tonnes of sug­ar for the 2025 sug­ar cane har­vest in­clud­ing 6.8 mil­lion kilo­grammes of mo­lasses.

“This, of course, speaks to the fact that we have re­mained con­sis­tent in de­liv­er­ing sug­ar so that we can keep things sweet whilst we ex­port the rum we pro­duce,” said Agri­cul­ture Min­is­ter, In­dar Weir, adding that this year’s crop yield­ed 3.8 mil­lion kilo­grammes of sug­ar.

The an­nounce­ment of this year’s sug­ar crop comes amid con­tin­ued un­cer­tain­ty about who con­trols the near four-cen­turies-old sug­ar in­dus­try, with Weir main­tain­ing that the gov­ern­ment is still in charge of the in­dus­try.