Private farmers who supply cane to the Wales Sugar Estate are at their wits end to find an alternative means of earning a livelihood as they don’t believe that taking cane across the coast to the Uitvlugt estate is feasible.
Following the surprise announcement last month by GuySuCo of the closure of the Wales estate by the end of this year, private cane farmers are beginning to weigh their options. GuySuCo and the government have said they are examining ways of how to make the transport of cane between Wales and Utivlugt feasible but no details have been announced. Skepticism has already been expressed by farmers as to whether this