This year's sugar harvest was the smallest in 30 years.

Celebrating the end of the sugar harvest, five weeks of parades, concerts and calypso.

The aim was to produce a ten-million-ton sugar harvest in 1970.

However, many european immigrants did not stay in Cuba and came solely for the sugar harvest, returning to their homes during the off seasons.

The drive up to Havana took a little over two hours, for the sugar harvest was in progress.

The country is just finishing another disappointing sugar harvest amid continuing widespread shortages of food and basic consumer goods.

Hispaniola had its first sugar harvest in 1501.

The sugar harvest for 1990 produced a record 100,297 tonnes.

It was a period when work had relaxed on the plantations after the fierce weeks of the sugar harvest and processing.

The expected growth rate for 1996 is between 4 and 5 percent, depending on the sugar harvest, now under way.