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All of the plantations, which were in the main owned in Britain and operated by slave labour, grew sugar cane and most of them had their own mill for grinding the cane, extracting the juice and processing it. Until recently, the European Union provided support to the Barbados sugar industry, but since July 2006, in an attempt to protect its own sugarbeet industry, the subsidies have been steadily reduced. ? European Community, 2007 Increased competition and pressure to reduce preferential trade agreements has seen the Barbados sugar industry decline. Photograph: Chris Hoyle In 1950, the sugar industry employed 30,000. By 1999 it was employing only 3,000 people. Photograph: Chris Hoyle This represented 56% of employment in the agricultural sector … and around 3% of the national workforce. One of the major changes in the sugar industry over the years has been the move from being labour intensive ... ... to full mechanisation. In the past cane was harvested manually. Men and women would cut the tall stalks, pile them into bundles to be loaded on to trucks and carts to be taken to the factories. From the collection of the Barbados Museum Historical Society Today, 90% of the crop is harvested mechanically. Photographer: Neville O. BadenockCopyright holder: Ibo Inc. 2006 Rationalisation of the industry has seen the number of factories on the island reduced from 26 at its height to 2 today. There’s Andrews in St. Joseph … Photograph: Michelle Nihell … and Portvale in St. James. As a result .... … a system of transporting cane from all parts of the island has been set up using a number of trans-loading stations serving as collecting points. Two former factories, Carrington in St. Philip and Bulkeley in St. George have been utilised for this purpose and its from these two points that the canes are then loaded onto large trucks to be taken to Andrews and Portvale. Photographer: Neville O. Badenock, Copyright holder: Ibo Inc. 2006 Today, due to problems