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Germany's refined sugar production from beets in the new 2024/25 season is forecast to rise to about 4.77 million tonnes, up about 13% from last season's 4.22 million tonnes, the WVZ sugar association said on Monday in its first harvest forecast. It is reported by Reuters. The country's farmers increased plantings to 385,000 hectares of sugar beet for the new crop, up 5.7% from last season, the association said. Farmers elsewhere in...

Heavy rainfall has spoiled Indian sugar mills' plans for an early start to cane crushing so raw sugar exports could get underway before supplies start coming on the market from rival exporter Thailand, a senior industry official and dealers said. It is reported by yahoo.news. The delay in cane crushing in the world's biggest sugar producer and the second biggest exporter could push back shipments of raw sugar from India and may sup...

Fires in Brazil sugarcane fields in recent days have helped drive prices to a five-week peak and added to problems with the crop. It is reported by Reuters. The fires, despite the damage from the blazes being limited, are yet another negative factor for the world's largest sugarcane producer. Experts said that mills wi...

Brazil's largest sugar group Raizen SA estimated that about 1.8 million tonnes of its sugarcane, including what it sources from suppliers, had been affected by the fires, or about 2% of the total expected for its 2024/25 crop. It is reported by Reuters. In a securities filing, Raizen said it did not expect the fires to lead to material losses to its results as it is prioritizing the crushing of the affected sugarcane to...

Wildfires blazed through sugarcane fields in northern Sao Paulo state on Saturday. It is reported by Reuters. «The firefighters are unable to control the flames. We can't do anything, — farmer Silvio Dantas, 56, told Reuters, on his field as a column of gray-...

Brazil's national crop agency Conab on Thursday increased its forecast for the country's 2024/25 sugarcane crop but said production would still fall short of the previous season as low rainfall and high temperatures reduced yields in key areas. It is reported by xm.com. Sugarcane output in the South American country is now seenat 689.83 million tonnes this season, the agency said, above the 685.86 million ton...

Sugar production in Brazil's center-south region totaled 3.61 million tonnes in the second half of July, a 2.16% drop on a yearly basis, while agricultural yields for sugarcane declined as the crop struggles in drier weather. It is reported by xm.com. Industry group Unica said in a report on Tuesday that sugarcane crushing in the period totaled 51.31 million tonnes, down 3.35% year-on-year, while total ethanol outp...

Britain's competition watchdog said on Tuesday it has provisionally approved the deal for T&L Sugars to buy Tereos UK & Ireland's retail sugar business. It is reported by Reuters. T&L Sugars, which refines and distributes packaged sugar across supermarkets in the UK, bought Tereos' consumer facing operations in the UK and a distribution fac...

India's gross sugar production is estimated to decline 2 per cent to 33.3 mln tonnes in 2024-25 marketing year starting October, according to industry body ISMA. The estimate was released after comprehensive analysis of satellite imagery, field reports on expected yields, sugar recovery rates, drawal percentage, the impact of rainfall from previous and current...

India will make a decision on sugar industry calls for a hike in the minimum selling price (MSP) in the coming days, a senior government official said on Saturday, adding that ethanol policies would be set before the start of the next season. It is reported by Reuters. India, the world’s largest sugar consumer, restricted the use of sugar in ethanol production during the 2023/24 marketing year that ends on Sept. 30 and also prohib...