Black sugar strikes again
published : 29 Jan 2021 at 04:00
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Early this week, residents of some provinces that serve as hubs for cash crops like rice and sugar cane started to choke on PM2.5 fine dust as many farmers began to burn farm waste. The dust levels caused by this method have exceeded the official safe threshold of 50 microgrammes per cubic metre.
One of the major culprits is black sugar , the ecologically destructive harvesting practice which prevails in the industry. The increase in dust particles from sugar cane plantation burning often starts at the end of each year and lasts until April. Numerous planters burn sugar cane before cutting, knowing full well that such a practice will cause the price to drop and lower the product quality. They do so because they want to save time and labour costs.
How not to learn about the American past
In the mid-1940s, Edmund S. Morgan, a mild-mannered young
historian, was teaching at Brown and making a name in the quiet field of early
American studies. Having published a slim, well-received collection of essays
on the New England Puritans, he might have seemed the very model of the
unassuming scholar at the outset of a modest career, satisfied to refine the
work of great forebears in a narrow field. That wasn’t Edmund Morgan. The
Second World War was over. The United States was developing an energetic
vision, which would come to fruition in 1960 with the election of John F.
Daily Monitor
Wednesday January 13 2021
Busoga Diocese Bishop Paul Moses Naimanhye flags off sugarcane trucks to Atiak Sugar Factory in northern Uganda on Monday. PHOTO/SAM CALEB OPIO.
Summary
The development is a relief to the farmers who have endured an unfavourable market after the millers lowered the rate to Shs75,000 from Shs197,000 per ton.
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Busoga Diocese Bishop Paul Moses Naimanhye has flagged off 50 sugarcane trucks to Atiak Sugar Factory in northern Uganda, following farmers’ frustration over the falling prices of sugarcane and lack of market in the area.
Flagging off the consignment at Nakalama-Iganga Yard on Monday, Bishop Naimanhye likened sugarcane growers to the fishermen Jesus Christ found cursing over no catch and told them to cast their nets in the deeper waters from where they got a big catch.
Ben Franklin’s “Liberty Snake,” first printed in the Pennsylvania Gazette in 1754.
Published January 12. 2021 8:00AM
John Steward, Special to The Times
Squeezed between the revolutionary hotbeds of New York and Boston, New London and Groton in the 1700s may have been small ports, but we played on the big stage, helping to bring the segregated colonies together in unity, strengthening the country in preparation for war.
After Parliament enacted the reviled Stamp Act in 1765, the wild Sons of Liberty held two December meetings in a New London tavern, the first actions in organizing all the colonies in the buildup to revolution. We were already up in arms over the Sugar Act and the Currency Act, and now we were becoming national players, dangerously hosting and abetting anarchy.