The Cuban sugar economy is the principal agricultural economy in Cuba. Historically, the Cuban economy relied heavily on sugar exports, but sugar production has declined since the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991. [1] In 2015, raw sugar accounted for $368 million of …

2023年1月19日 · Cuba was playing a major role in filling the world’s sugar bowl. Today, only 23 of those original sugar mills are operating. The remainder have been used, abused, unmaintained, and are now unrecoverable. Cuba now cannot even meet its domestic need for sugar.

2025年1月14日 · The 2024-2025 sugar harvest in Cuba is experiencing one of its most severe crises yet. Out of the 14 sugar mills expected to participate in this season, only six are operational, resulting in the processing of just 25% of the planned sugarcane.

2024年5月18日 · Last season, Cuba's production fell to just 350,000 tonnes of raw sugar, an all-time low for the country, and well below the 1.3 million tonnes recorded in 2019. Miguel is one of the fastest...

2024年1月9日 · For a long time now, “sugar” is one of the scarcest products in modern-day Cuba. It sounds ironic because anyone familiar with our country’s history knows that since colonial times, this has always been an island of sugarcane fields, a land producing and exporting sugar.

2023年5月12日 · In the last six years alone, sugar production has fallen from more than 1.5 million tonnes a year to less than half a million tonnes, amid tougher sanctions on Cuba imposed by the...

2024年5月18日 · Last season, Cuba's production fell to just 350,000 tonnes of raw sugar, an all-time low for the country, and well below the 1.3 million tonnes recorded in 2019. Miguel is one of the fastest...

Large-scale sugar production in Cuba began early in the 19th century. "Sugar quickly became the cornerstone of the Cuban economy," wrote Ramiro Guerra y Sánchez in Sugar and Society in the Caribbean , "and a new class of wealthy planters emerged."

2024年10月14日 · Traditionally, Cuba consumed 700,000 tons of sugar and exported the rest, but with current production, the panorama has changed radically. Now Cuba has been forced to import much of the sugar it needs for its population and is unable to comply with export contracts.

2022年4月8日 · It is cane harvest time in Cuba -- once the world's top sugar exporter but now reliant on imports. A critical shortage of harvesters and trucks to deliver the cane to factories has hamstrung...