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Poor sugar crop in Mauritius

author(s) Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation
from Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA)
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  • Eastern Africa
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Africa
  • World
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CTA. 1999. Poor sugar crop in Mauritius?. Spore 84. CTA, Wageningen, The Netherlands.

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Abstract

The drought that has hit Mauritius since the end of 1998 has seriously dented the sugar crop, now down to 340,000 tonnes compared with an annual potential of 625,000 tonnes. One of the worst-ever crops in the history of the island, it means a loss...

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