Tongaat Hulett is an agricultural and agricultural processing business that includes integrated components of land management and property development. Through its sugar and starch operations, it produces refined carbohydrate products from sugar cane and maize. Renewable energy, in the form of biofuel production and electricity generation, is of increasing importance to the business. It balances the operational requirement for cane supplies to its sugar cane processing operations with the transition of agricultural land to other uses. It employs 35,000 people in six countries.