1.   Already, for example, sugar production in Central America has been less hurt by drought than some investors expected, because many farmers now irrigate their fields.

2.   A price dispute between Mexican sugar cane farmers and refinery operators has stopped sugar production across the nation, industry officials said.

3.   Both the House and Senate propose to end government-imposed limits on domestic sugar production, allowing growers unlimited ability to expand.

4.   But Vriesenga and others also acknowledge that their sugar production simply fell victim to the world division of labor.

5.   Chilean sugar production declined last season in part because farmers planted more corn and wheat, betting that those crops would fetch higher prices than sugar beets.

6.   Critics of the federal sugar program say that the continually rising sugar production across the country just proves that sugar is a sweetheart deal.

7.   Cuba has already taken some steps that government officials have said should make sugar production more efficient.

8.   Cuba has also taken other steps that government officials said should make sugar production more efficient.

9.   Cuban sugar production has declined steadily since the collapse of Communism.

10.   Declining sugar production in India and Thailand have also been wrongly attributed to El Nino, Eagles said.