For Cuba, widespread agricultural issues have recently led to significantly less sugar being produced. This is an issue in ...

If there’s one thing that rum geeks can all be ... They’ll tell you about the sugar cane varietal, the characteristics of the soil, and the specific area of the farm where the cane was grown.

HAVANA (Reuters) - The Cuban sugar harvest is winding down at the lowest tonnage since 1900, forcing the government to import and putting more pressure on its domestic rum, soft drink and ...

Island's sugar output falls to lowest in more than a century Causing a shortage of local ingredient for Cuban rum Cuba must import sugar to meet bare minimum demand HAVANA, May 14 (Reuters ...

Slaves also seined the boiling matter to collect the molasses — the syrupy byproduct from making sugar." Enslaved people may have even developed the rum-making process: "Molasses could be sold ...

HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuban annual raw sugar production will fall below 200,000 metric tons in 2025 for the first time since the 19th century, potentially leaving rum makers short of a key ingredient ...