Last weekend, during the celebration of the 100th anniversary of SCOUL in Buikwe, President Museveni urged sugar investors to cultivate their own cane, citing the unreliability of outgrowers.
Well, cane sugar is made from the sucralose-rich sugar cane plant, which is in the same family as corn and wheat. To make cane sugar, you heat sugar cane juice and let the moisture evaporate until ...
Dr Nathalie Piperidis is a ‘cytogeneticist’. What does that mean? She studies sugarcane chromosomes under the microscope, trying to figure out what the complex crop is up to. It’s a long way ...