date:Oct 08, 2012
recent crop. The company directly employs nearly 500 people and farms 4,000 acres of cane. BSI also processes the cane of 6,000 independent growers, who farm roughly 55,000 acres. All of the farms qualify for the Fair Trade certification, which provides additional compensation to local farmers and helps foster sustainable businesses and communities. BSI and its independent farmers are the largest employers in Belize.
BSI produces raw sugar, demerara specialty sugars and white sugar. While the