Strengths
- Highly Profession Management with experience
- Promoters from 4 Continents
- More than 30 years of Experience
- Knowledge of Modern Cane Farming & Advance Processing Technology
- Available Resources
- Provides direct employment including ancillary activities.
- Supports the downstream industries by providing the raw material.
- Sugarcane farming is more profitable than any other cash crop with direct return to local communities
- Good marketing infrastructure.
- Most re-silent Crop
- Multi revenue streams
- Renewable Biomass for Energy Production
Weakness
- Inefficient infrastructure and high transport costs
- Increasing costs of sugar production
- Increasing inefficiency of smallholder farmers in growing sugarcane
- Shortage of Biomass Source
- Deficiencies and inefficiency of public utilities, with their related high costs
- Fluctuating Energy Prices
Opportunities
- Expanded access into regional CARICOM markets with trade benefits
- Diversification into other sugar by-products.
- Supply of sugar markets worldwide
- Temporary nature of problems facing small farmers.
- Nurturing regional demand
- Improve economy in the local area
- Bring in much needed foreign currencies from direct investment and annualized earnings of revenues
- Saving of Foreign Exchange from imported refined Sugar
- Growing niche market worldwide
- Shift to renewable Energy and Government Policy framework in place
Threats
- Dismantle of the Preference Market
- Failure of small farmers to run farms efficiently
- Low returns to small farmers, and reduced viability of irrigation projects.
- Low Price on World Market
- Environmental constraints
- Cattle Damage
- Natural Disaster