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Rabobank increased its forecast of global sugar deficit in 2019/2020 to 8,2 million tonnes due to declining production in India and Thailand. It is reported by Sugaronline. If Rabobank forecast comes true, the largest sugar deficit will be recorded in season 2019/2020 since 2015/2016 MY. In mid-September, Rabobank predicted the global su...

India's sugar production stood at 4.58 million tonne till December 15 of the ongoing marketing year, down 35 per cent from the year-ago period, owing to sharp fall in output in Maharashtra and Karnataka, industry body ISMA said on Wednesday. It is reported by Business Standard. Sugar marketing year runs from October to September. Mills had manufactured 7.05 million tonne of sugar in the same period of the 2018-19 marketi...

Indonesia is revising its sugar import rules to increase the purity levels for its raw sugar purchases from overseas, said Indrasari Wisnu Wardhana, the Trade Ministry’s foreign trade director general on Wednesday It is reported by Reuters. The ministry’s current rules say raw sugar must have an ICUMSA purity level of at least 1,200 to be considered for import, and Wardhana said this will be lowered to...

In 2019/2020, Jamaica sugar production set to fall 20%/ It is reported by Stabroek News. The 2019-2020 sugar crop year got off to an early start when Chinese producers Pan Caribbean Sugar Company (PCSC) started production on November 28. PCSC, Applet...

Egypt aims to supply local plants with 9 million tonnes of sugar cane in the 2019/2020 fiscal year to produce 950,000 tonnes of sugar, an official at the Agriculture Ministry said on Tuesday. It is reported by Reuters. «340,000 feddans (352,866 acres) of (sugar) cane were planted this year», — said Mostafa Abdel Gawad, head of the ministry’s Sugar Crops...

«Starokostiantynivcukor» LLC confirmed its own products' compliance with the requirements of FSSC 22000 food safety management system version 4.1. It is reported by the company on its Facebook-page. According to experts, the Food Safety System Certification is practically the most comprehensive food safety and quality management scheme in the...

Ukrainian agrarians finished 2019 sugar beet harvesting campaign. It is reported by press-service of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine. As of December 10, 9,8 million tonnes of sugar beet were harvested from the area of 220 thousand he...

Despite the decrease in sugar beet yield, «Starokostiantynivcukor» LLC processed almost 300 thousand tonnes of sugar beet during the 2019 production season — 50 thousand tonnes more than last year. It is reported by the company on its Facebook-page. «A'SPIK GROUP» explains such results due to the establishment of partnering relationships with the agricultural enterprises...

Indian mills produced 1.9 million tonnes of sugar between Oct. 1 and Nov. 30, down nearly 54 percent from a year earlier, with many yet to start crushing operations, the Indian Sugar Mills Association (ISMA) said on Tuesday. It is reported by Reuters. The country is the world’s biggest sugar producer and lower output could support global prices. By the end of November, 279 sugar mills had started crushing oper...