In Thailand, Mitr Phol sugar mills have to procure sugar cane from more than 100,000 cane farmers per year (on average one sugar mill procure cane from around 20,000 individual cane farmers in each harvesting season). Cane farmers are largely fragmented with only a few hundreds of large farmers (large farmers are farmers with more than 100 rai of land for cane plantation). Since most of the decent lands are already owned by farmers, it becomes impossible or prohibitively expensive to secure a large plot of land for company’s sugar plantation. It is a classic sight of the Thai sugar industry that we see sugar mills compete with one another to secure their supply of cane. In times of drought, competition can be extremely intense as each groups of sugar mills go beyond their own means and territory to fight for their share of cane as we called it “The Cane War”… After all, a sugar mill means nothing without sugar cane.