Jamaican farmers face bleak future as EU axes cap on sugar beet production

Europe will soon allow its states to grow more sugar beet, which will devastate economies in the Caribbean, and a trade that underpinned the British empire There is a photocopied sign above the desk in the one-room office of the North St Elizabeth Cane Farmers' Association that reads: "Plan ahead: it wasn't raining when they built the ark!" The association represents 564 smallholders growing sugar cane on the hilly margins of the Appleton rum estate in south-west Jamaica - and last week many of ...