Sugar cane in Guadeloupe, in Martinique and in La Réunion
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From cane to sugar to rum
La Réunion and Guadeloupe devote respectively 6 and 4 hectares out of 10 to sugar cane, with over half of their farmers cultivating it. Although smaller in Martinique, acreage progresses. In 2009, the three islands’ five sugar processing plants produced 268,000 tonnes of sugar, and their 22 distilleries 271,000 hectolitres of rum.