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Sugar production in India has registered a decline of 20% at 24,7 million tonnes as of April 15, as the season that started on a bleak note last October, nears its end. It is reported by Business Today. In November, sugar production was lower in the country by over 64% as unseasonal rain and floods had damaged crops in the south and western regions of the cou...

India's sugar production dropped by 22% — to nearly 23,3 mln tonnes in the first half of the current marketing year ending September on lower cane production, industry body ISMA said on Wednesday.  It is reported by LiveMint. Sugar marketing year runs from October to September. The country produced over 33 mln tonnes of sugar in 2018-19 but output is estimated to decline to 26 ...

S&P Global Platts Analytics forecasts total 2019-20 EU sugar production will be down 428,000 mt on the year at 17.502 million mt as a result of dry conditions early in the season and heavy rainfall late in the season, meaning beet yields did not offset a reduced planted area in the main producing countries of France and Germany. It is reported by press-service of S&P Global Platts However, in the UK, AB Sugar said the campaign was "entering its final stages and is progressing well". British Sugar owne...

The European Union will likely see a further decrease in planted sugar beet this year following the closure of some factories, participants at the annual Dubai sugar conference said on Wednesday. It is reported by Reuters. Sugar production in the trading bloc has fallen for two successive seasons after an initial surge after the EU abolished production quotas in 2017. Prices collapsed as...

The world’s largest plant to process sugarcane, Brazil’s Sao Martinho mill in Pradopolis, Sao Paulo state, could add corn as a second source of raw material to be able to boost its ethanol production, the company that controls the plant said on Tuesday. It is reported by Reuters. Several cane-based sugar and ethanol plants in Brazil are adding machinery to produce ethanol using corn as well, a model seen as profitable because plants use cane waste...

Chinese commodities trader COFCO said on Monday it did not predict a recovery in Thailand’s sugar crop any time soon. It is reported by Reuters. COFCO’s Managing Director Softs Marcelo de Andrade made his comments during a panel discussion at an industry conference in Dubai. Thailand’s sugar product...