Out of 147 sugar mills that started operations this year, 25 mills have stopped crushing as on Dec. 31, Indian Sugar Mills Association said in a statement. Leia mais...
Brazil's main center-south cane belt produced 362,000 tonnes of sugar in the first half of December compared with 1.13 million tonnes in the previous two-week period, as most mills approach the end of the 2016/17 crushing season.
According to a report by sugar industry group Unica, mills crushed 7.145 million tonnes of cane in the period versus 19.6 million tonnes in… Leia mais...
The taxation of sugar and its by-products is an important factor to watch for, as also any threat to rising sugar prices from higher global output Leia mais...
Cuba expects a 12% sugar production increase in the 2016/17 crushing season after output in 2015/16 fell short of target by 4% particularly due to excessive rainfall and industrial inefficiency, according to local press reports.
According to AZcuba, in this harvest 54 plants will participate, from which 45 will be operating befor the end of Decenber and the other 9 until January should… Leia mais...
From the start of the current season through end-August, the regional crush totaled 374.25 million tons, which was just slightly higher than the 372.69 million tons crushed during the same period last year. Leia mais...
Campaigners in Brazil on Wednesday hailed a court decision to cancel a major land acquisition deal because investors had illegally acquired territory from small-scale farmers.
A state court in Piaui in Brazil's poor northeast issued an order canceling the deal for a tract of land larger than Los Angeles earlier this month.
The 124,000 hectare land concession in the area of Santa Filomena in… Leia mais...
Mills in the region pumped out 2.79 million tonnes of sugar, more than doubling the 1.2 million tonnes in the first half of June, when rains slowed harvesting, Unica said. Leia mais...
Brazil's center-south cane crop should reach a record 640 million tonnes in 2017/18, compared to an estimate for the current crop of 628 million tonnes, as mills slightly expand planting and crop care, consultancy Agroconsult said on Monday.
"Mills are making more money this year. Many of them will have the resources to better prepare the next crop, despite the aging fields," said… Leia mais...