SA CANEGROWERS NEWS

Colleen Dardagan “For 20 years, time stood still in the sugar industry, until 2015, when the fabric of the sector was torn apart, and change was forced on us.” Dr Kathy Hurly, former corporate executive, SA Canegrowers. […]

A landmark funeral benefits scheme for sugarcane farmworkers and smallscale growers has shown its worth as administrators of the scheme report an exponential increase in claims due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Read the full story here

The International Sugar organisation’s simple yet informative presentation on the sugar industry value chain. https://sacanegrowers.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/how-well-do-you-know-sugar-ISO-pub-welcome-to-share-1.pdf

Watch SA Canegrowers’ Chairman Rex Talmage in interview with Plaas Media   https://youtu.be/QdmBqOU1ZRM

Engineering News South African Canegrowers (SA Canegrowers) has welcomed government’s decision to maintain the health promotion levy, or ‘sugar tax’, at its current rate. The industry association says that, although it had called for a reduction in […]

The year 2020 will be remembered as the year of the pandemic and a challenging time for all. However, it is during a time of adversity such as this that both the generosity and care demonstrated by […]

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Conventional stick seed cane, while long relied on as the source of plant material for commercial sugar cane crops, comes with unavoidable inefficiencies. Experts in seed cane propagation explain how the ‘speedlings’ concept provides an alternative, cost-efficient […]

The Land Bank’s operational performance continues to deteriorate as its financial losses grew by 211% to R2.8bn for the year to 31 March 2020, compared with a loss of R902m in the previous year. By Ray Mahlaka […]

SA Canegrowers’ submission on the Government Gazette (No. 43920) published on 20 November 2020. The submission contains the proposed recommendations on the investigation into the National Minimum Wage.