Disease threat looms over sugar crop
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November 11, 2026
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A difficult-to-detect cane disease is likely widespread in Barbados and threatens next year’s sugar crop, a leading researcher has warned.
Andrew Stoute, research director at the West Indies Central Sugarcane Breeding Station in Groves, St George, cautioned on Wednesday that affected fields would now have to be replanted with hot water-treated material.
Stoute told Barbados TODAY that while no scientific survey had been conducted since the 2000s to determine the current impact of ratoon stunting disease (RSD), it was likely widespread.
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