On July 11, the 2024 sugar campaign began in La Reunion. The sugarcane harvest is estimated at 1.4 million tonnes. This is a historically very low value. These 1.4 million tonnes are the result of the two previous sugarcane harvests. Previously, the average was between 1.7 and 1.8 million tonnes, a far cry from the more than 2 million which were the norm around fifty years ago. Sugar is the main product in terms of value from sugar cane grown by more than 2000 planters in La Reunion. Since (…)