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            Long Pond Sugar Factory May Be Closed For Upcoming Crop Starting in December

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            Trelawny and more specifically, Clark’s Town, could be in trouble if the Hussey family decides to close the Long Pond Sugar factory for the 2015-2016 crop,  which begins in December. They Husseys are contemplating whether or not to close the factory for this crop season.

            The Long Pond factory, located in Clark’s Town, employs over 600 field hands as well as over 200 factory workers. In addition,  the factory is supplied by 270 independent sugar cane farmers.

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            The alternative for these independent contractors would be to sell their cane to other factories.  Transportation costs would erode their profit.

            For the unskilled field workers,  there is not much of a choice.

            We don’t know whether this is linked to productivity, but earlier this week, Rafael Suarez Rivacoba, the Director of International Relations for AZCUBA Group, which manages the affairs of the sugar industry here, suggested that it was a waste of time for workers in the Jamaica sugar industry to be using machetes to cut cane in this day and age. Instead, he is suggesting that if sugar producing companies in Jamaica want to reduce their overhead costs and realise profits, they must move towards mechanisation.

            He said the harvesters make Cuba’s sugar cane production viable. Cuba’s cane harvesting (as well as Australia’s) is now 100% mechanized.

            That would make it more profitable for the Husseys, but destroy the livelihood of hundreds of sugar cane workers. However, the cane industry will have to make some serious decisions going forward, but the government will have to step in to provide employment to those displaced. The JEEP programme could be an alternative.

            The old unprofitable system in which a private sugar company has to run unprofitably, simply to satisfy the government’s desire to find employment for the unskilled. This is something the government should be doing, not at the expense of a company’s viability. If the company goes down, we all lose.

             

            From The Gleaner

            Everglades Farms, the Hussey-owned operator of Long Pond and Hampden sugar estates in Trelawny, are weighing their options for the up-coming sugar crop.

            Sources say the Hussey family is contemplating a closure of the Long Pond Sugar Factory, while keeping the rum distillery operations running at Hampden.

            Both factories together processed about 133,000 tonnes of sugar cane for the 2014-15 crop grown on approximately 2,600 hectares of cane lands, around 50 per cent or 1,300 hectares of which are farmed by independent contractors who supply the estates.

            Everglades produced 11,200 tonnes of sugar for the 2014-15 crop.

            The Financial Gleaner understands that Minister of Agriculture Derrick Kellier called an urgent meeting recently involving representatives of Everglades Farms, led by Andrew Hussey; Ministry officials, representatives of the Sugar Industry Authority; and other stakeholders to ascertain the sugar producer’s status.

            Contacted for comment, Permanent Secretary Donovan Stanberry confirmed that there were issues surrounding operations at the two estates, and that Kellier had “appointed a team from the ministry to further analyse the situation and come up with recommendations”.

            Stanberry said the ministry and its sugar agency were exploring whether other factories would purchase the cane that would have been supplied to Everglades during the next crop – reaping typically kicks off annually in December – in the event that the Trelawny sugar factory sits out the 2015-16 season.

            Everglades is supplied by 270 independent farmers and that the sugar company itself employs 800 persons – 200 at its factories and 600 as field hands – according to the Sugar Industry Authority.

            Historic Tradition
            Long Pond and Hampden are part of a historic tradition of sugar manufacturing in Jamaica.

            The Hampden Estate was rescued from the brink of financial ruin in the mid-1990s as the financial meltdown took hold. Hampden was formerly owned by the Farquharson family. Everglades utilises the facility only for rum, where it produces the brand Rum Fire.

            The Long Pond Estate has gone through schemes of ownership, intermittently passing from state control to private ownership and back. At one time, it was held

            by a Wray and Nephew-led consortium, Manufacturers Investments and Booker Tate with a 51 per cent stake in the company, while Government held 49 per cent.

            Both estates were acquired from the Jamaican Government by the Hussey family through Everglades Farms Limited in 2009, but Long Pond’s operation has been rocky. The factory remained closed during the 2010-11 sugar crop.

            Repeated efforts to contact the Husseys for comment were unsuccessful. Everglades CEO Andrew Hussey was said to be off the island and unavailable until next week.

             

            Curated from: The Gleaner

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