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In Southern India sugar mills are reeling under low production and extremely low cane crushing capacity utilisation. It is reported by SmartInvestor. While drought has resulted in low capacity utilisation due to lower cane availability, the mills are also having to deal with increasing fixed cost and price falls,...

Myanmar Sugar Development Public Co Ltd has secured state approval to invest US$20 million to build a new 5000 tonnes cane/day sugar mill in Kathar township, Sagaing Region. It is reported by International Sugar Journal. «The first phase of the mill construction and cogeneration plant is expected to be completed in a year and a half followed by another US$20 mill...

The Angolan Bioenergy Company (Biocom) is expected to produce 63,000 tonnes of sugar this year. It is reported by International Sugar Journal. While this is some 13% higher than the previous year, by all accounts this is significantly short of the full capacity of 256,000 tonnes which th...

The Sugar Company of Cameroon (SOSUCAM) plans to produce 160,000 tonnes of sugar a year by 2023, against a little over 120,000 tonnes now. It is reported by International Sugar Journal. The expansion in production will take place at its sites in Mbandjock and Nkoteng in the Central Region, where the company also has a cane planta...

Beet sugar output in the current campaign is forecast at over 6,6 million tonnes by the Institute for Agrarian Market Studies (IKAR). Last year Russia produced 6,2 million tonnes of sugar. It is reported by Sugar.ru. Combination of continuing increase in productivity and expansion in acreage (by 7,9% to 1,198,000 ha) informs the record output. Over the past 21 years, productivity...

Indonesia, the world's second-largest sugar importer, is exploring the possibility of buying raw sugar from India, where a bumper cane crop has raised fears of a glut of the sweetener.  It is reported by The Economic Times. India, too, is keen to export a bigger quantity, preferably through barter trade.  A delegation from Indonesian Sugar Association met representatives o...

Agrarians of Ternopil region completed sugar beet harvesting. UNIAN reports about it. Mariya Dermanska, Head of the Department of Agricultural Production Management of the Department of Agro-Industrial Development of the Regional State Administration, says, t...

During 11 months of 2017, Ukraine's seaports transhiped 16,23 thousand tonnes of sugar, which is 28.59% less than in the same period last year. It is reported by USPA. At the same time, during the reporting period, all this sugar volume was aimed at exports. The sugar transfering was carried out in Odessa seaport. It is reported that, acco...

«Svarog West Group» Corporation generally processes about 80 thousand hectares of land in Khmelnytsk, Chernivtsy and Zhytomyr regions and grows a wide range of crops with traditional and organic technologies. Fylymon Antoniyk, chief agronomist of the company, told about the main indicators of productivity in traditional agriculture. It is reported by SuperAgronom. The chief agronomist says, this year sugar beet were grown on 7,600 hectares. The harvesting was completed on December, 15. The yield (in the calibrat...

Despite difficult weather conditions, sugar refining season continues at Gnidava Sugar Refinery. This season, the company heads towards a record high rising sugar beet processing and sugar production. Such sugar beet volumes have made new record in the last sixty years. The press-service of the company reports about it. Gnidava Sugar Refinery works not only with large agricultural enterprises and sugar beet growers, but also with individual peasant farms. Director...