According to the official of the Guangxi Sugar Exchange, they are still calculating and estimating the actual loss and damage from this disaster. They are having some problems to check certain areas where the access roads to these areas are broken after the floods happened. They are still waiting the repair works on the roads to be done.
“In Liuzhou, 12,000 hectares of sugarcane plantations were damaged,” an official said. However, there is still no detailed estimate of the overall lost output in the province, which produces about 60 percent of China’s sugar and sowed 967,000 hectares of sugar this year. The sugar traders believe that the output is not has too big differences.
“There was a flood that started last Friday and was already subsiding on Sunday. Cane only starts to rot when submerged for more than five days, and the flooded area in Guangxi is mostly in Liuzhou, where the cane grows on hilly slopes,” said a dealer in Singapore.
Among the floods area in southern China since last week, Guangxi was the province that received worst heavy rain, which cause destroy of home, crops flooding, damage of roads, and river overflowing.
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