Survival of the Mauritius sugar industry: the role of R and D
| MSI99P2085 | |
| Julien, R. | |
| Survival of the Mauritius sugar industry: the role of R and D | |
| Antoine, R. (ed)., Proceedings of the First Annual Meeting of Agricultural Scientists, Réduit, Mauritius, 12-13 June 1995 | |
| First Annual Meeting of Agricultural Scientists, Réduit, MU, 12-13 June 1995 | |
| Book chapter | |
| 1996 | |
| p. 14-23 | |
| Réduit, Food and Agricultural Research Council (FARC), MU | |
| En | |
| En | |
| Today, in Mauritius, there are only 17 sugar factories producing around 630 000 tonnes of sugar annually. The sugar industry is facing the following major problems: loss of cane lands in recent years, scarcity of labour, increases in the cost of production, lower prices for sugar on world and preferential markets, increased awareness of environmental issues. However, this crop is very well adapted to the growing conditions of Mauritius and efficient organizations have been developed to support the industry. Sugar cane will, therefore, remain one of the major contributors of the Mauritius economy. It must survive and its problems could be solved by: increasing total sugar production at national level, reducing costs of production, maximising utilization of sugar cane byproducts as well as diversifying with sugar, diversifying in other crops, monitoring environmental issues, improving transfer of technology and development. The role of research, both strategic and applied, in the development of technology must not only be communicated to producers but it should also be ensured that they are efficiently adopted. Hence, the use of modern methods of extension, coupled with assistance of research scientists towards the development of new technologies. | |
| SUGAR INDUSTRY SUGARCANE CANE SUGAR RESEARCH DIVERSIFICATION | |
| MAURITIUS | |
| Agricultural research | |
| 1996-02-12 | |
| En | |
| LIB + PHOTOCOPY | |
| CAT | |
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