The owners of the large Caribbean plantations decided to switch to growing sugar cane. The sugar cane plant was the main crop produced on the numerous plantations throughout the Caribbean during ...

The Philippines’ sugarcane production for crop year 2024-2025 is projected to reach 1.837 million metric tons (MT), up nearly ...

In the years that followed, workers on the big plantations of bananas, pineapples, oil palms, sugar cane and rubber trees ... debt of $139.64 billion. The Philippines is the fifth largest borrower ...

Just when the sugar milling season is near, insects have started ravaging sugar cane plantations in Negros Occidental. The Sugar Regulatory Administration (SRA) reported that red-striped soft scale ...

Philippines – The Sugar Regulatory Administration (SRA) expressed concern on Tuesday, June 4, about how the eruption of Kanlaon Volcano would impact sugarcane plantations on Negros Island.

the sugar cane stood 10 ft. high. It was time for harvest, but on the huge sugar plantations many of the harvesters failed to report for work. Each morning before sunup, some 2,000 (an estimated ...

Sugar cane plantations like this one were considered the most deadly places to work, with the types of diseases that haunt swamps, venomous snakes and sometimes fatal heat exhaustion in the high ...