Tongaat South African Sugar Output Cut 18% by Drought
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Tongaat Hulett Ltd., South Africa’s second-biggest sugar company, is planting more cane to increase production after a drought slashed its output in the country by more than 18 percent.
Sugar production in Africa’s biggest economy dropped more than 100,000 metric tons from 564,000 tons in the last season because of a “severe” drought in the east coast region, the Tongaat, South Africa-based company said in a statement today. It is planting 6,000 hectares (14,800 acres) of cane to supply sugar production plants in the country, the company said.