Peru’s Sugarcane Up
10 April 2006 Sugarcane production for 2006 is forecast to rebound to 760,000 metric tons (MT) as the country overcomes the droughts that struck farmers in 2004 and sugar production fell from 747,000 MT to 696,000 MT in 2005, according to the US Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agriculture Service (USDA-FAS).
Good weather conditions and abundant water supply will allow production to recover in 2006. Sugar in Peru is produced in the rich valleys along the northern coast. Normally this area has excellent conditions for growing sugarcane. All the fields in this area are surface irrigated, which allows producers to cut the supply of water at a given time to obtain higher sucrose yields.
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