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Global sugar production is forecast up 2.5 million tonnes to 186.0 million with lower production in Brazil expected to more than offset higher production in Thailand, India, China, and Mexico. It is reported by USDA in its May report. Consumption is anticipated to rise to a new record with growth in markets such as India and Pakistan. Exports are forecast lower due to reduced shipments f...

Egypt's General Authority for Supply Commodities (GASC) on Monday announced a tender to import at least 50,000 metric tons of raw cane sugar from any origin on behalf of the Egyptian Sugar & Integrated Industries Company. It is reported xm.com. Offers should be submitted for arrival Sept. 1-15 and/or Sept. 15-30 and/or Oct. 1-15 and/or Oct. 15-31 for at sight payment. Offers should be in Egyptian pounds or U...

Michigan farmers made good headway on planting with less than four days suitable for fieldwork last week. It is reported by brownfield. The USDA says sugarbeets are 95 percent planted, 60 percent emerged and rated 95 percent good to excellent. Frost damage has become most apparent in some tart...

The Cuban sugar harvest is winding down at the lowest tonnage since 1900, forcing the government to import and putting more pressure on its domestic rum, soft drink and pharmaceutical industries, according to official reports, two economists and a rum industry source. It is reported by Reuters. President Miguel Diaz-Canel said at the end of April that the state-run industry had produced 71% of the 412,000 metric tons planned, or just shy of 300,000 metric tons,...

The Agriculture Minister of Tanzania, Hussein Bashe, told the parliament that the government has set aside 400 hectares of land to grow sugarcane seedlings. These seedlings will be given to sugarcane farmers to help increase sugar production in the country, reported News Ghana. Bashe said that the Sugar Board of Tanzania has partnered with the Tanzania Prisons Production Corporation to grow sugarcane seedlings in Turiani, Morogoro Region. Currently, Tanzania produces abou...