Question 19574 — overseas

Summary

Mrs. Manuéla Kéclard-Mondésir draws the attention of the Minister of Agriculture and Food to the current difficulties of the sugar cane sector in Martinique. The cane-sugar-rum sector occupies an important place in the Martinique economy with 3,500 direct and indirect jobs, but it is today in danger following several years of poor harvests, delays in the payment of European aid, and restrictions administrative or foreign competition. Currently in the middle of the sugar campaign, the sector must produce at least 280,000 tonnes to operate, 100,000 tonnes being intended for sugar, and 180,000 tonnes for rum. But as in 2018, this year it will not reach 200,000 tonnes, including 170,000 for distilleries. There is therefore great danger for the production of sugar for the last sugar factory in Martinique, which is only 30% of its production capacity; but also for the production of rum in the long term, to the extent that Martinique agricultural rum, the only AOC classified in the world, can only be made with local canes, and not imported. And even less with molasses! Result: planters see their income drop by 30%, even though the 2018 European directive on ecological transition requires them to invest in new boilers, i.e. an investment of 8 to 10 million euros per distillery for operation for 4 months per year... Consequently, she asks him what measures he intends to take to allow this structural sector of Martinique to continue to exist in the future.

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