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Brazilian sugarcane producers are expected to keep favoring sugar production over ethanol in the 2023-24 Center-South crop that is expected to start in mid-March 2023, 15 days earlier than usual as wet weather in 2022 kept producers from crushing all the sugarcane available. It is reported by S&P Global Platts. In contrast to the severe dry weather that lowered sugarcane crushing in the 2021-22 CS crop that ended in April, the high volumes of rains in the main prod...

Agrarians of Cherkasy region harvested half a million tonnes of sugar beets. Oleksandr Turchenyak, the deputy head of regional military administration, informed about it, dzvin.media reported. «Our farmers hold the agrarian front, — noted Oleksandr Turcheny...

Approximately 90,000 tonnes of sugar beets were harvested in Chernihiv region. This year, they were sown by only one company on an area of more than 1,500 hectares. According to preliminary data, the yield amounts to 58 t/ha. Ivan Antophiichuk, the chief specialist of the agri-industrial department of Chernihiv regional state administration, reported about it  in a comment for Suspilno, ukragroconsult reported....

While India is making a push for ethanol-blended petrol, by incentivizing sugarcane-derived ethanol, concerns remain about the water-guzzling nature of the sugarcane and fair remuneration for farmers. Itis reported by finance.yahoo. On Nov. 2, the center, as part of its ethanol blending programme (EBP), approved a higher price for ethanol that is derived from different sugarcane-b...

The recent freezing temperatures has increased the risk of frost damage to sugar beet, with a rising number of cases of damage being reported. It is reported by farminguk. Extremely cold weather followed by sudden thaws could cause the deterioration of roots, the British Beet Research Organisation (BBRO) warns in new guidance. The...

As of December 15, 9 million tonnes of sugar beets were harvested in Ukraine. It is reported by press service of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine. Sugar beets were harvested from the area of 179.4 thousand hectares (100%), 9 million tonnes of sweet roots w...

The year-on-year sugar production of India till December 15 at 8,21 mln tonnes is higher by 5.1% over previous year, said industry body Indian Sugar Mills Association (ISMA). It is reported by economictimes. The sugar till December 15 in 2022-23 sugar season is 8,21 mln tonnes, against 7,79 mln tonnes produced during the corresponding period of previous y...

As of December 8, 8,9 million tonnes of sugar beets were harvested in Ukraine. It is reported by press service of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine. Sugar beets were harvested from the area of 176,7 thousand hectares (98% of the planned), 8,9&...

In the current sugar production season, «Astarta»’s sugar mills plan to process up to 2mt of sugar beet grown in-house and supplied by third party farmers.  It is reported by prescenter of the company. To-date, sugar plants have already produced 241kt of white sugar from more than 1.7mt of beets. They are yet to receive more 200kt. The processing seaso...

Indonesia's energy ministry plans to start rolling out a 5% ethanol blend of fuel made using sugarcane in three years time, starting with a few provinces of the country, it said in a statement on Wednesday. It is reported by Reuters. Under a new roadmap, which was developed with the Bandung Institute of Technology, the introduction of bioethanol fuel could begin by mixing 5% sugar-based ethanol with P...