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U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) in a report-Sugar Annual- released for Thailand highlights forecast for 2024-25 season. It is reported by chinimandi. According to the report, it forecasts MY 2024-25 sugarcane production to recover from a 12 percent reduction in MY 2023-24. Sugar production in MY 2024-25 is expe...

European farmers planted slightly more sugar beet this year, encouraged by high sugar prices, but the harvest is uncertain after heavy rain delayed plantings and mild weather raised the risk of a devastating disease in some countries, analysts said. It is reported by xm.com. Wet soils and continuous showers delayed field work by about two weeks in the two largest producing countries France and Germany, while Poland, traditionally the third-lar...

India's sugar production has been higher than expected this year after the completion of cane crushing at most of its mills, industry officials said on Wednesday, with a late pick-up in rains raising output. It is reported by business-standard. With the majority of India's sugar mills having now completed crushing for the 2023/24 season, output so far stands at 31.59 million metric tons, accor...

Brazil's new sugarcane crop will be only slightly smaller than the record previous one, government agency Conab said on Thursday, and sugar production will reach an all time high as higher planting partly offsets falling agricultural yields. It is reported by Reuters. Conab projected Brazil's 2024/25 (April-March) total sugarcane crop at 685.86 million metric tons, 3.8% less than in 2023/24. The fall in total cane volume is smal...

A significant reduction in Thailand’s sugarcane yield in the 2023-24 crop year has been reported by the Office of the Cane and Sugar Board (OCSB). This decrease in production is attributed to severe drought conditions and is expected to have an impact on the worldwide sugar supply. It is reported Bangkok Post. Thailand is the second-largest exporter of sugar globally, following Brazil. Therefore, any decrease in its production could cause strain on the global market. A rep...

India has agreed to allow oil marketing companies to procure ethanol by diverting an extra 800,000 tonnes of sugar for biofuel production, a government source said on Wednesday. It is reported by Reuters. Concerns over sugar production due to below normal monsoon rains between June and September had led the world's second-largest sugar producer to cap the amount that c...

As the 2023-24 crushing season in Maharashtra nears the end, sugar mills in the State have crushed 106,686 million tonnes(mt) of sugarcane to produce 10,936 mt of sugar. Out of 207 sugar mills operational this season, 196 mills have stopped crushing.  It is reported by thehindubusinessline. Last year during the same period, 211 mills had crushed 105,391 mt of sugarcane to produce 10,523 mt of sugar. The extract percentage or sugar recovery...