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Brazil's center-south (CS) new sugar crop was revised downward on Wednesday as consultancy Datagro sees mills diverting more cane to ethanol production, but higher production in Asia will still drive an increase in the global supply of the sweetener. It is reported by Successful Farming. Datagro chief analyst Plinio Nastari said during the Citi ISO Datagro sugar conference in New York that Brazil's CS sugar production should fall to 32.1 mi...

Dry weather in France will have a negative impact on this year's production of sugar beets by reducing yield potential, the French agriculture ministry said on Monday. It is reported by Reuters. For recently sown spring crops like maize, sugar beet and sunflower seed, the ministry was monitoring field conditions, with rain seen as crucial in the next two weeks to...

Sugar production in the key Center-South Brazil region is expected to total 769,400 mt in the second half of April, a decrease of 49.5% year on year, an S&P Global Commodity Insights survey of 10 analysts showed May 9. It is reported by S&P Global Platts. «Expectations are running high that the cane crush should be the lowest since 2012 for the fortnight», according to S&P Global. Of t...

India, the world's second largest sugar producer after Brazil, has exported 7 million tonnes of the sweetener so far in the ongoing 2021-22 marketing year, and exports from the country may touch a new record of 9 million tonnes, industry body ISMA said on Thursday.  It is reported by Economic Times. Indian Sugar Mills Association (ISMA), in a statement, said the country's sugar output has risen to 34.23 million tonnes till April of the current marketi...

Romania's agriculture minister plans to hold talks with French sugar and ethanol group Tereos to try to save a sugar factory it wants to close, he said on Wednesday. It is reported by Nasdaq. Tereos, the world's second largest sugar producer by volume, said earlier this year it was consulting with unions at its Ludus factory in Romania about shutting it dow...

The Egyptian Minister of Supply and Internal Trade, Aly al-Meselhy announced Monday that the state’s strategic reserves of sugar stocks has risen to cover more than six months ahead. It is reported by Egypt Independent. The production of local sugar from beet and cane crops will enhance the strategic stock of the sugar commodity to meet the country’s needs in the long-ter...

Sugar production in Brazil's Center-South for the first two weeks of the 2022-23 season showed a drop of 79.99% year on year at 126,627 tonnes, data from trade association UNICA showed April 28. It is reported by S&P Global Platts. The figure was lower than the consensus expectations of 278,900 tonnes from 10 analysts surveyed by S&P Global Commodity Insights. Mills in CS Brazil...

Sugar production in the key Center-South Brazil region is expected to total 279,000 mt in the first half of April, a decrease of 56% year on year, an S&P Global Commodity Insights survey of 10 analysts showed April 26. It is reported by S&P Global Platts. «The start of the 2022-23 harvest should witness the lowest cane crush since the 2014-15 harvest, — according to S&P Global&#...

Brazil’s center-south (CS) region is expected to increase production of both sugar and ethanol in the new season that started in April, as fields partially recovered from the worst drought in 90 years last season, consultancy JOB Economia said on Monday. It is reported by hellenicshippingnews. It projected the CS sugarcane crop in 2022/23 at 558 million tonnes, 6.7% above 2021/22, while sugar output was seen at 33.5 million tonnes versus 32.1...