sugar from as far away as france behind the shift is under investment and unpredictable weather feliciano barrow quickly noticed a curious turn of events when produced from cane as in cuba sugar tends to be brownish but the french version comes from beets and is the main difference is the colors of. cuba's sugar industry was once the flagship of the ons and with cultural exports fidel castro cutting sugar canes after the revolution illustrated the plant's importance to the nation. the soviet union used to buy most of cuba's sugar after the fall of communism in europe trade figures dwindled as did investments in seeds and fertilisers more recently last year's hurrican m.-a devastated large parts of the country the subsequent harvest was one eighth of the size of nine hundred ninety. yeah. there's a lack of resources and a lack of money but i believe that there are also structural and organizational factors with other software that what it was. and most of what does get harvested has to be shipped abroad mostly to china due to longstanding contracts. to meet domestic demand forty thousand tons of