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Africa-Press – Eswatini. <\/strong><\/span>Eswatini Sugar Association (ESA) is once again expanding market access for smallholder sugarcane growers (SSGs) by ensuring that their sugarcane production processes are compliant with domestic and international law standards.<\/b><\/p>\n

According to ESA Chief Executive Officer, Banele Nyamane, this was the driving force behind the ESA\u2019s annual Smallholder Sugarcane Growers Competition.<\/p>\n

This year marks the 19th edition of the competition whose awarding ceremony will be held at Phumulamcashi Community Training Centre in Siphofaneni tomorrow.<\/p>\n

The competition\u2019s key objectives are to recognise well performing SSGs and encourage them to share best practices so that they remain productive, profitable, and sustainable.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll growers with an area less than 50 hectares on Swazi nation land title deed land and Vuvulane farming area are eligible for the competition, and the winners come from all three of these sub-categories,\u201d said Nyamane.<\/p>\n

He further outlined that SNL growers contributed at least 85 per cent of the total SSGs sector sugarcane production.<\/p>\n

The competition was inspired by the Eswatini sugar industry\u2019s quest to attain new markets, therefore, served as an inclusive and proactive response to the need to demonstrate to customers and sugar users that local sugarcane production processes are performed sustainably.<\/p>\n

He added that sugarcane production processes were also socially and environmentally compliant with both domestic and international laws and standards.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur aim is to ensure that the industry is compliant with international standards, and this is one such step towards achieving certification for all our growers through inculcating the culture of self-assessment,\u201d Nyamane said.<\/p>\n

He said ESA through the technical services department had developed a sustainability tool for growers to assess themselves on production\/productivity, social and environmental compliance.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe score attained from the assessment is then used collaboratively with the productivity score (annualised tons sucrose per hectare (TSH\/AN)) to rank the growers,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He said the competition inculcated in SSGs a culture of self-assessment and provides a platform through which all sugarcane growers can obtain certification.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn this way the sugar industry gets to be compliant to international standards,\u201d said Nyamane.<\/p>\n

He said the growers used a \u2018Best Management Practice Manual\u2019 in the production of sugarcane to ensure that they were in line with ESA\u2019s sustainability programme.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis in turn then feeds into the corporate strategy in ensuring that there is enough sugarcane for sugar production to service our respective markets,\u201d said Nyamane.<\/p>\n

Explaining the historical development of the competition, Nyamane stated that at its inception in 1994, only 13 growers participated. However, since that time, the number of growers who participated in the competition had gradually risen to over 400 annually.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe value of prizes has increased over the years to over E400 000. The prizes initially included only production inputs, farm machinery and equipment.<\/p>\n

In recent seasons, the focus has shifted to capacity building with the winners having been upskilled on a wide range of courses to ensure that the sugarcane farming business remains viable and sustainable,\u201d said Nyamane.<\/p>\n

Adding, he said to remain competitive, ESA needed to ensure that the growers were supported to remain in production and achieve higher yields.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Eswatini. Eswatini Sugar Association (ESA) is once again expanding market access for smallholder sugarcane growers (SSGs) by ensuring that their sugarcane production processes are compliant with domestic and international law standards. According to ESA Chief Executive Officer, Banele Nyamane, this was the driving force behind the ESA\u2019s annual Smallholder Sugarcane Growers Competition. 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