HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuban annual raw sugar production will fall below 200,000 metric tons in 2025 for the first time since the 19th century, potentially leaving rum makers short of a key ingredient, ...

Sugar used to account for the vast majority of Cuba's exports. But the fall of its big brother, the Soviet Union changed everything, as did a lack of investment in seeds, fertilizer and pesticides.

Cocktail connoisseurs around the world may soon be asking where the rum has gone as Cuba faces one of its worst sugar harvests since the 19th century. The island nation’s sugar production is expected ...