“Tokayev also noted that the area sown for sugar beet cultivation had fallen by a third in the last four years.”
It’s as if they weren’t expecting a shortage in the availability of imported sugar. Oops. Better get a government department to make a better plan. Double, triple the sugar beet acreage, because you can be sure that the market price will never fall below the cost of production.
They’ll be healthier without refined sugar.
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Should be easy to get sugar from Cuba, but I see that the supply chain crisis has affected CHAOS and SPECTRE as well as the rest of us...