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West Valley Sugar Company’s 2.8-billion-Kenyan-shilling ($21.27 million) sugar factory in Kericho County will start trial runs in August. The trial will continue for two months before the official commissioning in October, Business Daily reported, citing West Valley Sugar Company managing director Bernard Soi. The initial installed c...

Brazilian sugar group UNICA estimated on Friday that mills in the country’s centre-south region will crush around 5 million tonnes of sugarcane in the second half of March, nearly five times more than in the same period in 2022. It is reported by Business Recorder. UNICA’s projection confirms market speculation of an early start to the Brazilian sugar season after favourable weather in the between-crops’ period...

India's top sugar-producing state, Maharashtra, could churn out nearly 16% less sugar than the previously estimated as mills are closing early due to limited availability of sugar cane. It is reported by Reuters. Lower sugar output could prevent the world's second-biggest exporter from allowing additional exports, potentially supporting global prices SBc1, LSUc1 and allowing r...

Specialists of «Astarta» agri-industrial holding have already started work in the field, they are closing soil moisture and harrowing winter crops. Roman Pavlyk, the chief agronomist of the agronomic service of «Astarta-Kyiv» told about it in Facebook. He notes that this season the situation is unusual: spring has come very ea...

The sugar beet sowing campaign began in 5 regions of Ukraine. It is reported by press-service of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine. Sugar beet sowing began in Vinnytsia, Volyn, Rivne, Khmelnytsk and Cherkasy regoins.

The Ukrainian irrigation equipment manufacturer Variant Irrigation is completing the installation of 5 irrigation machines on the fields of «Poltavazernoproduct» enterprise, which is a part of «Astarta-Kyiv» agricultural holding. It is reported on Facebook-page of Variant Irrigation. In this way, the company plans to expand the irrigated areas almost twice. «We were looking for a domestic quality product to im...

«Ukrprominvest-Agro» began 2023 sowing campaign. It is reported by the company on its Facebook page. For the first time in its entire history, UPI-AGRO — «Podillia» Foods Company» PJSC began sugar beet sowing so...

Louisiana has reached a major milestone in raw sugar production. It is reported by knoe news 8. The state produced more than two million tonnes of raw sugar in 2022 for the first time, according to the American Sugar Cane League. Officials of the organizati...

Indian mills have produced 28.2 million tonnes of sugar since the current season began on Oct. 1, down 1% year on year, the Indian Sugar Mills Association said on Friday. It is reported by Nasdaq. Lower sugar output from India, the world's biggest producer of the sweetener, will leave hardly any surplus for additional exports during the current 20022-23 season....

Egypt's Ministry of Supply and Internal Trade has raised the procurement prices for local sugar beets for the current season by EGP 75 per ton to encourage farmers to cultivate more as the country seeks to double the production of the crop. It is reported by ahramonline. The announcement was made by Minister of Supply and Internal Trade Ali Moselhi during a meeting on Wednesday that included Hesham El-Hossary, head of the agricultural...