Impacts of El Niño’s on Sugarcane Farmers
Sugarcane farmers experience two strokes of ill luck. Production plummets thanks to pests in the dry season. To make it worse, sugar is sold at a low price.
Retno Sulistyowati
August 21, 2023
THE rising price of sugar has not compelled Enal, a trader of basic necessities at the Hamadi Central Market, South Jayapura District, Papua, to place new labels on his wares. He is still selling sugar below the government’s reference price. The government has set sugar’s selling price at Rp16,000 (about US$1.05) per kilogram, but Enal is still selling sugar at only Rp15,000 (US$0.9). “So that sales go well,” said the
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