In Guadeloupe, Drought Puts the Future Sugar Cane Harvest at Risk
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The Guadeloupée sugar sector is facing a major climate crisis, delaying plantations and weakening the future of production already in sharp decline After a catastrophic harvest of 2026,
Some fields are yellowed, almost burned by the sun, others are freshly ploughed. But none of them still have the precious sugar cane seedlings, which should have been sown for several weeks now. "It's too hot, it's not raining enough, the seedlings would burn if we were to land now," explains Alex Bandou, secretary-general of the Union des Produceurs de Guadeloupe. Indeed, because of climate change, the Caribbean region is experiencing a major d…
The fields should have welcomed the young plants for weeks, but the land remains bare. After a harvest already in free fall, the field has been in a good... Read more In Guadeloupe, drought blocks the planting of the sugar cane appeared first on Le Singulier.
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