Sugar Mountain

Sugar Mountain
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For the second half of Sustainable Community Development our group headed up to Patchakan, a rural community in Northern Belize. We continued our study of food and development by visiting a number of agricultural operations including the Belize Sugar Industries (BSI), where sugar cane is processed into raw sugar, a small sugar cane farm and a large papaya operation. We also visited a clinic in the area and stayed with Mayan families in the village.

Pictured here are our students gazing up at the mountain of sugar in the BSI storehouse.