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India is likely to produce 34.3 million tonnes of sugar in 2022/23, down 4% from the previous forecast, after sugar cane yields in key producing states were hit by adverse weather, a senior industry official told on Tuesday. It is reported by Reuters. Lower sugar output could limit exports from the world's second-biggest exporter, lifting global prices , and allowing rivals Brazil and Thailand to increase their shi...

Belgium experienced severe bouts of frost last month around 10 December, which is now making farmers and sugar factories face severe consequences as around 1,000 hectares of sugar beet need to be destroyed. It is reported by The Brussels Times. The freezing and quick thawing has caused the sugar beet to rot and, according to the Confederation of Belgian Beet Growers (CBB), around 1,000 hectares of rot...

Iranian farmers have managed to produce 6.7 million tonnes of sugar beet in the current Iranian calendar year (started on March 21, 2022), an official with the Agriculture Ministry said. It is reported by IRNA. According to Peyman Hesadi, the director of the ministry’s high-sucrose plants program, some 900,000 tonnes of sugar have been produced from the harvested sugar b...

«Astarta» completed the 2022 sugar production season. In total, the сompany’s sugar mills processed 2mt of sugar beets grown in-house and from third-party farmers and produced 282kt of white sugar. It is reported by press-center of the company. The sugar output content corresponded to 14.26% (the average Ukraine’s indicator was 13.98%). Traditionally, 99% of sugar produced by «Ast...

Brazil’s centre-south sugarcane crushing totalled 2.63 million tonnes in the second half of December, industry group Unica said on Wednesday, soaring from the same period last year when processing had already been virtually halted by this time. It is reported by Business Recorder. Sugar output reached 165,000 tonnes in the period, while total ethanol output hit 322.24 million liters, as the current crop nears its end. Only 16 plants ha...

Europe's largest sugar producer, Suedzucker (SZUG.DE), on Thursday posted a rise of 73.5%% in quarterly earnings as higher sugar and biofuel prices counteracted the impact of rising energy and raw materials costs. It is reported by Reuters. Suedzucker said operating profit in the third quarter, to the end of November, of its 2022/23 fiscal year had risen to 220 million euros ($237 million) from 127 million e...

In 2022, Cygnet company changed the structure of sown areas, but this year it plans to return to a five-crops rotation. Cygnet CEO Ihor Shilyuk told for the corporate publication. «With the beginning of the war, we were limited in working capital. Considering the specifics of growing agricultural crops, i...

In 2023, as last year, farmers of Rivne region will sow more spring wheat, sugar beets, buckwheat, soybeans and sunflowers. It is reported by the director of Department of Agri-Industrial Development of Rivne regional military administration, Nadiya Perekhodko, AgroPortal reported. «I think that some small en...

More than 330,000 tonnes of sugar have already been produced in Vinnytsia region. It is reported by «Golos Ukrainy». Two sugar refineries have already completed their work — Yuzefo-Mykolaivskyi and Tomashpil refineries. Three more — Gaisyn, Kryzhopil...

In Louisiana, the weather is always challenging for agricultural producers and this year was no different. It is reported by wafb.com. The beginning of October marks the start of the harvest season for sugarcane farmers. Coming off of days of back-to-back freezing temperatures, there were concerns...