2023-07-10 22:16:12
It is in a month that the harvest will be considered complete. Already, the first results are visible and they are not the best. The difficulties added to each other, contributing to a drop in the wealth of the cane harvested and, in fact, lower incomes than the growers would have hoped for.
A. Houda and Ch. Danquin with Y. Yacou and FJO. • Posted on July 10, 2023 at 6:16 p.m.
2023 will probably be one of those years that planters would prefer to forget. And for good reason: this year, nothing will have been spared them.
The season had started with a delay for the start of the harvest due to the various stages of the negotiations for the 2023-2028 convention which were slow to materialize.
To this were then added complicated climatic conditions generating a considerable drop in wealth to 8.8 instead of the 9.84 they expected.
Three years ago, Didier Népos started cane. He chose to become a cane producer. Installed in Sainte Rose, one of the basins where the situation will have been very complicated and as a result, where wealth is particularly in decline.
Didier Népos hard at work to guarantee his future results • ©Ch. danquin
For the yield of the 6 hectares of his farm to be maintained, he had to invest in soil studies and better fertilizers.
But despite all these efforts, the result of this 2023 cane season will not meet his expectations at all.
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For the factory, it will also have been necessary to make do with the lower quality of the rods delivered. A declining purity which has not failed to lower the level of expected revenue.
And for the UDCAG, which represents nearly 700 planters on Basse Terre, the situation is dramatic.
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Experts agree that this is the worst rate recorded since 2007.
At present and according to the factory, 72% of the area planted with canes has been harvested, which represents 290,500 tons. And while the season should end on August 9, Gardel hopes to crush up to 406,000 tonnes of cane.
As for Marie-Galante, if the 2023 harvest shows better figures and a better yield than last year with a better saccharimetric richness than in the rest of Guadeloupe, the island has not yet reached its full production regime. .
As for planters, they now want to think regarding the means they will have to adopt to improve their results. But first they will have to overcome their gloom and pessimism. They also want to hope that the effects of the 2023-2028 Agreement will already be felt in the management of their activity.
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