Belize’s Agriculture Minister Jose Abelardo Mai supports a sugar price increase, noting the country has the region’s lowest sugar prices and low...
Four northern Belize sugarcane associations are demanding a sugar price hike, with 65% of the increase to benefit cane fields. Citing a...
Belize’s four sugarcane producers’ associations declared a “critical and unprecedented crisis” in the sugar sector due to pests and disease, calling for...
Belize Prime Minister John Briceño declared the 2024–2025 sugar crop one of the worst in recent memory, citing an “existential crisis” in...
India’s proposed trade deal with the US faces opposition from domestic sugar and soyabean industries. Sugar mills oppose ethanol or GM maize...
Belize’s sugar industry is reeling from a severe hit as Fusarium disease slashes production and prices. Output has dropped by over 140,000...
Belize’s sugar export earnings rose 15.4% to \$182.3 million in 2024, with molasses contributing \$6.3 million, Minister Jose Mai announced during the...