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India will soon permit import of 300,000 tonnes of raw sugar at a concessional rate of 25 per cent import duty against normal 40 per cent duty. Import is most likely to be permitted to sugar-starved mills in the southern states, where prices are Rs 2-2.50 higher than in Maharashtra. Business-Standard reports. South Indian mills will get the permission to import 3 lakh tonnes of sugar to be refined and sold by mid-October. New crop sugar would enter the mark...

According to the Association of Sugar Producers «Belsahar», on August, 30 Gorodeysk Sugar Refinery began sugar beet processing. The production capacities of the mill provide processing of about 10 ths. t of sugar beet per day. In the coming days it is planned to launch Skydelsk Sugar Refinery, Slutsk Sugar Re...

As of September 1, 4б3 mln t of sugar beet are harvested and 530 ths. t of sugar are produced, reports Soyuzrossahar. Over the past week, two more plants began sugar beet processing in Kursk and Voronezh regions. For the current date 46 of 75 sugar refineries operate.

Brazilian mills reduced the amount of cane they use to produce sugar in the first half of August, increasing the use of the raw material for ethanol production as demand and prices for the biofuel improved, cane industry group Unica said. Reuters reports about it. Mills in Brazil’s center-south region, the country’s main cane belt, earmarked 50,04 percent of cane in the first half of August to sugar production, the small...