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India's money-losing sugar mills have run up a record $4,38 billion (Rs 30,335 crore) in arrears to 50 million cane farmers, who have gone unpaid for their produce for more than a year. It is reported by Reuters. Years of bumper cane harvests and record sugar production have hammered domestic prices, hitting mills' financial health to such an extent that monies owed to farmers...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture slightly lowered its forecast of domestic beet and cane sugar production in the current 2018-19 marketing year that ends Sept. 30. It is reported by Baking Business. Beet sugar production was forecast at 4,997 million tonnes, down 7,000 tonnes from March and down 282,000 tonnes, or 5%, from record outturn of 5,279 million ...

Ukraine is among the 20 largest sugar producers in the world and one of the 10 largest exporters, according to the results of 2018. Thus, the amount of exports of such product in the past year amounted to USD217 million. At the moment, Ukraine has just begun organic sugar production, but it is already in demand in the European market and in the future also has to conquer the global...

As of April 10, sugar beet were sown on the area of 167 thousand hectares or 68% of the forecast. It is reported by press service of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine. Ukrainian agrarians began sowing of maize for grain, which was own on the area of 58 thousand hecta...

In 2019/20, total European sugar production may fall from the 18,1 million tonnes S&P Global Platts has forecast for the 2018/2019 season. It is reported by S&P Global Platts. The French sugar beet planted area will fall to 455,000 hectares for the October 2019-September 2020 season, down 6,2% on the year, the French Agricult...

Brazil’s center-south region produced 26,5 million tonnes of sugar in the 2018/2019 crop, down from 36,06 million tonnes in the prior harvest, cane industry group Unica said on Tuesday. It is reported by Reuters. Mills in the main cane belt in Brazil crushed 573,07 million tonnes of cane versus 596,33 million tonnes and directed more of their production to ethanol instea...

As of April 8, Ukrainian agrarians sowed 130 thousand hectares of sugar beet, or 53% of the forecasted area. It is reported by press service of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine. Agrarians of all regions of Ukraine are fully provided with fertilizers for spring-sowing campaign. Thus...

In 2018, «Astarta» exported almost 131 thousand tonnes of high-quality white sugar to Uzbekistan, the EU, and Asia. It is reported by press center of the company. In 2018, consolidated revenues of the Group amounted to EUR 372 million with the agriculture segment as the main contributor to the Group’s...

Vinnytsia region has sowed half of the planned sugar beet areas. It is reported by the Director of the Department of Agro-industrial Development, Ecology and Natural Resources of the Regional State Administration Mykola Tkachuk. The farms of Vinnytsia regio...

In Rivne region «Ritter Bio Agro» and «Deddens Agro» are principally organic producers. In 2017, they received organic sugar from their first organic sugar beet in Ukraine. So far, organic producers have not yet managed to cultivate such a difficult culture. It is reported by press service of Gnidava Sugar Refinery.  Who will process organic beet? — this question stops even the most decisive producers. «So far, the only way was to...