Tongaat sugar output in recovery after two-year drought

After two consecutive years of having been impacted by a severe drought, Tongaat Hulett’s sugar production levels across its regions are starting to recover, with the company now edging closer to its full two-million-ton-a-year capacity. Total sugar production is expected to recover over two years to between 1.48-million tons and 1.58-million tons in 2018/19, after output dropped to 1.05-million tons in 2017 and 1.02-million tons in 2016.