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‘Local certification particularly suited to SA sugar industry’

South Africa’s sugar industry is maintaining that its own-developed Sustainable Sugarcane Farm Management System (SUSFARMS) is worth adopting nationally, despite global standards that also promote sustainable and responsible sugar cane production.

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