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Reply to "Kwayana, Andaiye, Bhagwan hammer gov’t on dismissal of thousands of sugar workers."

Prashad posted:

If you look at the Miami Cubans cane fields in America and overseas. They are all mechanized and they have few people working the fields and these people don't have good working conditions. So mechanized canefields only bring cheaper sugar. But it does not employ many people.

Yes an example of wealthy farmers who receive tax payer funded subsidies as well as a trade policy which makes importing cheap sugar difficult. And it is NOT to protect "poor" farmers or sugar workers either.

FM
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