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Chinese sugar refineries are planning to lobby Beijing to increase out-of-quota sugar imports next year, after the government took several steps to curb shipments this year. It is reported by Reuters. Major sugar refiners in the world's top buyer of the commodity proposed that the government should resume import permits for sugar at 1,9 million tonnes for 2018...

Iranian state purchasing agency the Government Trading Corporation of Iran (GTC) has issued a new international tender to buy 60,000 tonnes of raw cane sugar, European traders said on Wednesday. It is reported by Reuters. The tender closes on December 16. A previous tender for 60,000 tonnes of raw sugar from the GTC had closed on Tuesday, December 12. The GTC reserves the righ...

As of December 12, 2017, Russia completed sugar beet harvesting. It is reported by Sugar.ru. According to the Russian Ministry of Agriculture, sugar beet in the whole country is harvested from 1172,2 thousand hectares or 100% of the total harvested area (in 2016...

Indonesia will need 3,6 million tonnes of sugar for industrial use next year, compared with this year's 3,4 million tonnes, according to an estimation by the Ministry of Industry. It is reported by JakartaGlobe. Panggah Susanto, agro-industry director general at the ministry, said sugar demand will increase due to 8% growth expected in the country's food and beverag...

Sugar beet yield is hitting 100 t/ha along the north Norfolk coast (Great Britain), with crops bolstered by a good level of rain and sun throughout the summer and autumn. Farmers Weekly reports about it. Tom Dye, managing director at Albanwise Farming, has lifted about one-third of his 300 ha of sugar beet. ²It’s been a good year, perhaps not a record one...

Cane crushing at the National Cooperative Sugar Mills (NCSM) in Alanganallur here for 2017-18 season was inaugurated on Saturday. The Hindu reports. Owing to the drought witnessed across Tamil Nadu, including Madurai, last year, the officials at the mill said that they were targeting to crush only 50,000 tonnes of sugarcane t...

Brazilian mills have hedged 6,24 million tonnes of sugar through New York futures by November 30, or around 23% of expected exports in the 2018/19 season. Sao Paulo-based Archer Consulting said on Monday, Reuters reports. That hedging volume is the smallest since the 2013/14 season, Archer said, as mills refrain from fixing prices at the exchange wai...

In Vinnytsia region, sugar refineries produced 352 thousand tonnes of sugar. Director of the Department for Agricultural Development, Ecology and Natural Resources of Vinnytsia State Administration, Mykola Tkachuk told about it. Currently, there are 6 sugar refineries&...

In November Ukrainian producers exported 67,2 thousand tonnes of sugar, which is 59% more than the previous month. «67,2 thousand tonnes of sugar were exported in November. The geography of exports did not change significantly. The main deliveries were made to Turkmenistan (14%), Sri Lanka (14%), S...

Khmelnitsk region produced almost 200 thousand tonnes of sugar, which is twice as much as the region needs, since the beginning of the season. It is reported by the regional department of agro-industrial development. Many districts of Khmelnytsk region reports on the completion of sugar beet harvesting, the crop is harvested fro...