Digging deeper into cane

A new facility opened by the West Indies Rum Distillery and West Indies Central Sugar Cane Breeding Station aims to break new ground in sugarcane research

WORDS BETHANY WHYMARK

Two Barbados businesses are celebrating the opening of a new sugarcane research facility which could help to revolutionise rum production on the island. The West Indies Rum Distillery (WIRD) and the West Indies Central Sugar Cane Breeding Station (WICSCBS) collaborated to open the Harper Sugar Cane Mill, named after 19th-century Barbadian sugarcane expert Iran Harper. The mill will press and collect fresh sugarcane juice, with the capacity to process seven tons of cane per hour. The extracted juice will then be used by the WICSCBS for research purposes and by the WIRD (the owner of Plantation and Stade’s Rum) for distillation. At the opening of the new facility in April 2022, WIRD managing director Andrew Hassell said, “In 2020, the West Indies Sugar Cane Breeding Station’s team was in great need of a…

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