SA Canegrowers welcomes new regulations enabling local sugar negotiations
SA Canegrowers has welcomed the decision by the Minister of Trade, Industry and Competition Parks Tau, to gazette regulations enabling ...
Tag: sugarcane
Sugar industry celebrates competition freedoms to negotiate and diversify
South Africa’s primary sugarcane value chain is ecstatic at being granted exemptions from aspects of competition law. Albeit strictly controlled, ...
R30m finance facility for black sugarcane farmers unlocked
A historic agreement addresses the financing gap for small and medium-scale producers across South Africa.
Trump tariffs and sugar imports sour improved sugarcane yields
Positivity surrounding the anticipated recovery for South Africa’s sugarcane harvest during the current 2025-’26 milling season is being soured by ...
SASRI celebrates 100 years: Now focussed on diversification era
The South African Sugarcane Research Institute (SASRI) is celebrating its centenary. Although it has made remarkable achievements over the past ...
Trump tariffs | ‘We hope sanity prevails’ – Sifiso Mhlaba
South Africa’s primary sugarcane value chain can only rely and pin its hopes on the South African government to hopefully ...
Trump tariffs will sour 63 years of SA sugar exports to the US
Organisations representing the interests of South Africa’s thousands of sugarcane farmers are deeply concerned about the threat posed by the ...
Sweet support beckons for Zululand’s small-scale sugarcane growers
A R31 million taxpayer-funded production support unit reportedly promises close on 2 000 smallholder sugarcane growers in far northern KwaZulu-Natal’s Jozini/Makhathini ...
Sweet relief as sugar tax remains unchanged
By Lloyd Phillips South Africa’s sugarcane value chain would prefer to see the controversial Health Promotion Levy, or sugar tax, ...
Bitter divisions on sugar tax as budget speech 2.0 looms
Stakeholders within South Africa’s sugarcane value chain have wasted no time in using the startling postponement of the national budget ...
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