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The resurgence of COVID-19 cases in India highlights the ongoing concerns about the logistical challenges dampening the demand for sugar of Indian origin. It is reported by S&P Global Platts. India is currently experiencing a second wave of COVID-19 infections, with 403,738 new cases and 4,092 deaths reported on May 9, according to data from...

Insecticide Insyst (acetamiprid) has received an emergency authorisation from the government following an application by the NFU and British Sugar. It is reported by farminguk. Sugar beet growers can use one application of Certis’ insecticide InSyst to control peach–potato aphid to prevent virus yellows infection this year....

Sugar production in the second half of April in Brazil's key Center-South region is expected to total 1,483 thousand mt, a plunge of 27% year on year. It is reported by S&P Global Platts. If analyst estimates prove to be right, this would be the lowest volume of sugar produced in any H2 April since the CS crop 2017-18, when 1,132 thousand t w...

The global sugar supply crunch is about to get worse amid a food-versus-fuel debate playing out in top exporter Brazil. It is reported by Bloomberg. The South American nation is seeing record prices for ethanol as consumers there take advantage of easing Covid-19 restrictions and travel again, increasing consumption...

With Cuba’s sugar harvest poised to draw to a close as the coronavirus pandemic rages, production stands at little more than two-thirds of planned levels, an industry official said on Monday, indicating the smallest crop in more than a century. It is reported by Reuters. In yet another blow to the ailing Cuban economy, Jose Carlos Santos Ferrer, first vice president of state sugar monopoly AZCUBA, told the state Cuban News Agency that as...

Sugar production in the key Center-South Brazil region is expected to total 650 thousand tonnes in the first half of April, a decrease of 33% year on year, an S&P Global Platts survey of 11 analysts showed April 26. It is reported by S&P Global Platts. Of the 11 analysts surveyed, two large trading houses estimated the total cane crush would be between 9 million tonnes and 22б7 million tonnes. Th...

Sugar production from Britain’s sugar beet crop is set to rise more than 10% with a smaller drilled crop area offset by a recovery in yields after last season’s virus yellows-hit beet harvest. It is reported by Farmers Weekly. Beet processor British Sugar says good progress was made drilling this season’s crop in March due to favourable planting conditions, and it expects sugar out...

The imports of sugar in China is expected to remain elevated for the next 10 years, reaching 5.52 million tons in 2030, growing at an annual pace of 5.8 percent, according to a report released by China's Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs.  It is reported by Global Times. The high level of sugar imports will be backed by China's increasing sugar consumption level. China's sugar consumption will grow 0.9 percent annually, reach...

Mills in Brazil's centre-south region produced 174,000 tonnes of sugar in the second half of March, 23% less than in the same period a year ago, as operations in the new sugar season got off to a slow start, industry group Unica said on Tuesday. It is reported by Nasdaq. Sugar and ethanol producers in the world's largest sugar producing region crushed 4.99 million tonnes of cane in the second half of March, 33% less than a year ago, Un...

Successive cold snaps in the past week have destroyed between 30,000 and 50,000 hectares of French sugar beet, growers group CGB said on Monday, calling it the worst frost-related losses for the sector ever recorded. It is reported by Reuters. The estimate is higher than the 10,000-40,000 hectares of recently sown sugar beet that the CGB estimated last week would need replanting. Sugar beet plantings had alr...