"Meanwhile, raw sugar futures ended 2011 as one of the weakest performing commodities of the year on the Thomson Reuters-Jefferies CRB index, tumbling 27.5 percent on investor liquidation and increased supplies.
ICE benchmark raw sugar futures closed the day lower on investor selling and book-squaring on the last trading day of 2011, pressured by big crops in the EU, Russia, Ukraine, India and Thailand."
Yikes... so without 'safeguards' Mumias is in big doo doo...
Greedy when others are fearful. Very fearful when others are greedy - to paraphrase Warren Buffett