Caribbean sugar husbandmans are fi...

Caribbean sugar husbandmans are finding it difficult to address high production charges as they prepare for the los of their preferential market in Europe reports The Barbados Advocate (March 222002):

husbandmans are already losing market share as Europe allows poorer countries increased access and the preparations for dealing with impending competition are being made harder on lower earnings due to the depreciation of the euro;

"We are accelerating preparations for an spread market," said Karl James, chairman of the Sugar Association of the Caribbean,