The Cane Supply department is charged with ensuring a sustainable supply of high quality cane to the Tsb Mills. The division ensures efficient management of the water resources and provides technical support to large, medium and small scale farmers. The department also runs mentorship programmes to support government programmes such as the Land Reform for Agriculture Development and the land restitution.

The Nkomazi area yields more sucrose per hectare of sugar cane than the rest of South Africa and most other sugar production countries worldwide. Together with Swaziland and Zimbabwe, the area is recognised as one of the lowest cost sucrose producers in the world.

The agricultural division of Tsb Sugar currently produces around 24% of the total sugar cane delivered to the mill. The company's estates deliver approximately 780 000 tons of sugar cane to the mill. The total area under cane is in the region of 44 000 hectares of which the company estates make up approximately 7 800 hectares. The largest supplier group includes private commercial farmers, that occupy over 27 000 hectares, supply approximately 2.5 million tons of cane or nearly three times the production of Tsb Sugar estates whilst emerging farmers, occupying 9 500 hectares, currently produce approximately 750 000 tons of sugar cane per year.

Joint Venture Companies

TSB Sugar has formed joint venture (JV) partnerships with the Siboshwa and Hhoyi communities who won claims on 6 000 hectares of the company’s land as part of the Greater Tenbosch Land Claim.
The JVs ensure a transfer of skills that will enable the new owners to maintain world-class standards on the farms. Both farms made an annual turnover of R60 million during their first year last year, exceeding the sugar industry’s average yield of 94 tons of sugar cane per hectare, which should yield a profit of about R2 358 per hectare.
All profits are split equally between TSB Sugar and the Trusts.

Tsb Sugar are currently in negotiations with other land claimants, the Libuyile Community Trust (not to be confused with Libuyile Farming Services) and already a joint venture company has been established to manage all the farms under the Libuyile Community Trust.

Libuyile Farming Services is a 50/50 JV between TSB Sugar and Ingonyama Simhulu Trust read more »

Nzila is a joint venture farm management company that was established between Tsb Sugar and the Libuyile Community read more »

There are 1243 small-scale cane growers (SSG), of which 81% are active, farming 10 036 hectares read more »