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Canal Sugar Company announced Tuesday the start of the official operations of the largest sugar production plant in the world, with investments amounting to about $400 million. It is reported by Egypt Today. The first and second lines of the factory have been started with a production capacity of 18,000 tons of sugar per day, in preparation for reaching the maximum produc...

Thai sugar cane output for the 2021-22 crop year is expected to rise to 92 million tonnes, up from 66.6 million tonnes in the previous crop year, as rain brought higher crop yields, says the Federation of Thai Industries (FTI). It is reported by Bangkok Post. The amount can be used to make up to 10-10.5 million tonnes of sugar. «One tonne of sugar cane can make around 110 kg of sugar. This also shows sugar cane i...

Global commodities trader Louis Dreyfus projected on Wednesday that Brazilian mills will divert a larger-than-expected amount of sugarcane to ethanol production due to high energy prices, causing a reduction in global sugar supplies. It is reported by Reuters. Dreyfus sugar director Enrico Biancheri said during the Citi ISO Datagro sugar conference in New York that Brazil's center-south (CS) mills would produce only 29 mill...

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...