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Next season, the total sugar production in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus will decrease by 6% comparing with MY 2017/2018, but export potential will be unchanged. Marina Sidak, the head of analytical service (CIS) Sucden expressed such a view during the first «Sugar Trade and Export Conference». «In MY 2018/2019 in Ukraine and Russia there will be a decrease in sugar production by 5,5% and 11% respectively, but Belarus sugar production is forecasted to grow by 13%. At the same...

French sugar cooperative group Tereos said crop samples put this year’s sugar beet yield at 61.8 tonnes per hectare, below the five-year average. It is reported by Reuters. Crop samples also showed that the 2018 crop had a sugar content higher than the five-year average, Tereos said in a statement without giving more details. Tereos delay...

French cooperative group Tereos, one of the world’s largest sugar makers, reported a fall in quarterly earnings as historically low prices outweighed stronger volumes following the liberalisation of the European sugar market. It is reported by Reuters. Tereos’ adjusted earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) in the first quarter of its 2018/19 financial year came to 84 million euros (...

India has extended the deadline for export of 2 million tonnes sugar by three months to December. It is reported by Reuters. The world’s second-biggest sugar producer has been trying to reduce sugar stocks after harvesting a record crop. India’s sugar production is expected to ju...

Bunge Limited announced it has completed the sale of its international sugar trading operations to Wilmar Sugar Pte. Ltd. It is reported by Bunge. Financial terms were not disclosed. Bunge has been negotiating about the sale of sugar assets in Asia. The expected deal will provide Wilmar access to the Thailand marke...

The Minnesota sugar beet crop is expected to be smaller this year, due to the long winter and rainy start to the summer. It is reported by StarTribune. Yield forecasts are down more than a ton per acre — a decline of about 4 percent, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture — as farmers gear up for...

Gnidava Sugar Refinery carries out sugar beet audit and expects to process more than 500 thousand tonnes of beet. It is announced by the deputy chief executive on raw materials of Gnidava sugar refinery Oleksandr Nikishyn, the press-service of the company reports. He says that such sugar beet&nb...

Over 400,000 tonnes of cane have so far been crushed by the three sugar mills. It is reported by FBC. Fiji Sugar Corporation Chief operating officer, Navin Chandra says that this has produced over 40,000 tonnes of sugar. Chandra says they are happy with how things have pro...

Within  the framework of «Sugar Trade and Export 2018» Conference, which will be held on August 30 in Kyiv, the head of the analytical service «Sucden» (CIS) Maryna Sidak will comment the situation on the sugar market in the CIS countries. According to her forecasts, in MY 2018/2019, global sugar production will return to the annual average level, and Brazil will switch to ethanol: «World sugar production will drop...