Caribbean sugar agriculturists are...

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

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

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