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India will increase its diversion of sugar for ethanol production in the October 2022-September 2023 sugar season to meet its goals for ethanol blending with gasoline, the government said on 6 March. It is reported by argusmedia. India will divert 5mn t of sugar for ethanol production during 2022-23, up from 3.6mn t in 2021-22, the ministry of consumer affairs, food and public distribution...

France's largest sugar and ethanol group Tereos told unions it plans to close its sugar activities in its factory in Escaudoeuvres, northern France, local radio France Bleu reported on Wednesday. It is reported by Nasdaq. Tereos had said last year did closing a sugar factory in France as it anticipated further declines in sugar beet production. A spokesperson for the group declined to co...

Improved yields reported by beet sugar producers in the United States led to another increase in the projection for the total sugar production in the country in the 2022/23 crop (Oct-Sept), the USDA said on Wednesday. It is reported by Nasdaq. The U.S. Department of Agriculture increased its estimate for beet sugar production in its monthly supply and demand report WASDE WASDE10 to 5.16 million short tonnes (ST)...

Sugar beet growers will be able to plant seed this spring coated with Cruiser SB (thiamethoxam) neonicotinoid seed treatment, providing essential protection for crops from virus yellows spread by aphids. It is reported by fwi.co.uk. At the end of January, Defra granted a derogation to use the controversial seed treatment, which had originally been banned by the EU in 2018, subject to strict co...

Sugar beet growers are being offered a one-off contract to deliver beet to British Sugar’s Bury St Edmunds factory in early September, with a guaranteed return of £3,000/ha. It is reported by fwi.co.uk. The new contract is designed to help the processor overcome the “unique challenges” experienced in 2022, when drought conditions led to a delayed harve...

If domestic sugar production touches 33.6 million tonnes, then India may have the leeway to export an extra 1 million tonnes of it this year, official sources said.  It is reported by bizzbuzz.news. According to official sources, sugar stocks in the country are at comfortable levels, even if the production fails to touch 33.6 million tonnes during the curr...

India could export up to one million tonnes more of sugar in the 2022/23 season if production is at the upper end of current estimates, an official from one of the country's largest sugar and ethanol manufacturers said on Wednesday. It is reported by Reuters. Avantika Saraogi of Kolkata-based Balrampur Chini Mills (BACH.NS) said on the sidelines of the Dubai Sugar Conference that current estimates for India's sugar product...

Brazilian energy producer Raizen SA expects 48% of the cane crop in the Centre-South region to be used to produce sugar in the upcoming 2023/24 season, commercial director Bruno Trombelli told the Dubai Sugar Conference on Tuesday. It is reported by Nasdaq. The forecast was slightly above a median forecast of 46% in a Reuters poll issued earlier this month. Cane can be used either to produce sugar or biofuel etha...

The French sugar beet crop area is set to fall to a 14-year low this year despite high prices, with farmers deterred by potential crop damage because of pesticide restrictions, the head of beet growers group CGB said on Tuesday. It is reported by Reuters. Based on seed purchases, farmers are expected to sow 6-7% less in 2023 than the previous year, CGB Director General Nicolas Rialland told Reuters at the Paris farm show....

Brazil’s center-south crushed 73,000 tonnes of sugarcane in the first half of February, industry group Unica said on Monday, up from the same period last year when processing had been finished by this time due to poor climate conditions. It is reported by Business Recorder. Sugar output reached 2,000 tonnes, while total ethanol output rose 30.86% year-on-year to 207.26 million liters, as the current cycle nears its end and Brazil e...