Sugarflows

Sugar production in Thailand might reach as much as 9.8m tonnes as the country is set to crush at least 95m tonnes of cane, according to Sucden.

2011-04-28T10:45:00.000+02:00

Thai sugar output seen reaching 9.8m tonnes
AgraNet

SUGAR production in Thailand might reach as much as 9.8m tonnes as the country is set to crush at least 95m tonnes of cane, according to Sucden. Pierre-Henri Dietz, an analyst at the company, said: "They have already crushed 89m tonnes and most of the ...

Sugar prices to stabilize with a tendency to strengthen until October expiry.

2011-04-26T11:42:00.002+02:00

Sugarflows has published an update to the February analysis which advised the recent decline in global sugar prices.
Sugarflows

The latest analysis suggests a stabilization of prices with a strengthening trend until the October expiry.

The analysis can be found online here

India - Govt may consider additional unrestricted sugar exports after receiving final output figures for the current season from October, Food Secretary B C Gupta said on Tuesday.

2011-04-26T11:11:00.000+02:00

Govt may consider more sugar exports - Food secretary
Economic Times

India, the world's biggest sugar producer after Brazil, has allowed exports of 500000 tonnes of sugar under Open General Licence (OGL) following a bumper crop, and has asked mills to register for the overseas sales.

Cuba - Assuming similar local consumption this year, the industry would be offering at least another 100,000 tonnes on the market after meeting its long-time 400,000 tonne tolling deal with China.

2011-04-25T08:30:00.000+02:00

Cuba to produce extra 40000 tonnes of raw sugar
Cuba Headlines

HAVANA (April 24, 2011) : The Cuban Sugar Ministry said Thursday it would produce 40000 tonnes more raw sugar than planned, or somewhere between the 1.1 million and 1.2 million tonnes for the season Reuters has estimated. The Sugar Ministry said a week

India Scraps Import Tax On Sugar Until June 30 - Government

2011-04-21T06:33:00.000+02:00

DJ India Scraps Import Tax On Sugar Until June 30 - Government

India, the world's second-largest sugar producer after Brazil, had allowed tax- free sugar imports until March 31 due to an earlier local shortfall. ...

China - Sugar imports in the January March period totaled 80000 tons

2011-04-21T06:31:00.000+02:00

DJ China March Sugar Imports 50000 TonsCCS

Sugar imports in the JanuaryMarch period totaled 80000 tons down 11% from a year earlier. CCS Information Center is a governmentauthorized overseas supplier ...

EU - The attaches, terming Europe's sugar squeeze "unprecedented", forecast imports hitting an all-time high of 3.7m tonnes next season to replenish stocks and avoid the kind of shortages which have forced supermarkets in Portugal to limit customers' sugar purchases.

2011-04-18T08:13:00.000+02:00

EU faces fight with 'critically low' sugar stocks
Agrimoney.com

"High world prices for sugar continue to have a negative effect on sugar imports, despite the temporary lifting of the EU import duty," the report said. ...

EU - For the 2011/2012 marketing year it is estimated that fixing the quantitative limit initially at 650 000 tonnes, in white sugar equivalent, for out-of-quota sugar exports and 50 000 tonnes, in dry matter, for out-of-quota isoglucose would correspond to the market demand.

2011-04-18T08:09:00.000+02:00

Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 372/2011 of 15 April
Eur-lex.europa

in white sugar equivalent, for out-of-quota sugar exports and 50 000 tonnes, in dry matter, for out-of-quota isog lucose would correspond to the market ...

Sudan - Italian Firm Says It Reached Deal to Build Sugar Refinery With Kenana

2011-04-18T08:02:00.000+02:00

Sudan: Italian Firm Says It Reached Deal to Build Sugar Refinery With Kenana
Allafrica

Sudan's major Sugar-sector company, Kenana, has agreed a plan with Italy's leading Sugar-producer, Eridania Sadam, to build a joint sugar refinery whose output will be sold in Europe and Africa.

Sugar and Integrated Industries Co. of Egypt plans to import 1 million metric tons of raw sugar before the end of the year, said Chairman Hassan Kamel.

2011-04-18T07:59:00.000+02:00

Egypt's SIIC to Import 1 Million Tons of Raw Sugar This Year
Bloomberg

By Ola Galal - Sun Apr 17 11:16:22 GMT 2011 Sugar and Integrated Industries Co. of Egypt plans to import 1 million metric tons of raw sugar before the end of the year, said Chairman Hassan Kamel. The Cairo-based company has enough sugar stockpiles to ...

USDA Announces Increase in Fiscal Year 2011 Raw Sugar Tariff-Rate Quota (TRQ) and the Reassignment of Sugar Marketing Allotments

2011-04-11T17:30:00.000+02:00

USDA Announces Increase in Fiscal Year 2011 Raw Sugar Tariff-Rate Quota (TRQ) and the Reassignment of Sugar Marketing Allotments

WASHINGTON, 4/11/2011
WASHINGTON, April 11, 2011 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced a reassignment of 325,000 short tons raw value (STRV) of surplus cane sugar marketing allotment from domestic sugarcane processors to the fiscal year (FY) 2011 raw sugar tariff-rate quota (TRQ). This reassignment is effective April 12. The Federal Register notice is viewable online here: http://www.ofr.gov/OFRUpload/OFRData/2011-08570_PI.pdf. The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) will announce country allocations of this TRQ increase, and will also reallocate shortfalls of the FY 2011 TRQ. USDA is today announcing the reassignment of projected surplus beet sugar marketing allocations under the FY 2011 Sugar Marketing Allotment program.

The Philippines may lose its guaranteed sugar shipments to the US under a proposed farm bill that seeks to globalize export quotas.

2011-04-11T11:32:00.000+02:00

US farm bill threatens sugar quota
Manila Standard Today

Archimedes Amarra, president of the Philippine Sugar Millers Association, said in a text message from the US that the local sugar industry had expressed concern on bill pending before the US Congress. “The farm bill is being deliberated upon by the US ...

Colombia - Domestic consumption 2010 stood at 1.6 million tonnes of sugar, exports fell by 34.1 percent to reach 694,396 tonnes compared to 1.05 million tonnes in 2009.

2011-04-11T11:31:00.000+02:00

La caña, energía en tres tomas
El Colombiano

Las 218.000 hectáreas cultivadas con caña en el país el año pasado, permitieron la producción de 2,07 millones de toneladas de azúcar, 287 millones de litros de etanol y 187 magavatios de electricidad. Según Johan Martínez Ruiz, director del Área ...

France - Sugar output per hectare (2.47 acres) of beets may rise 5 percent to 6 percent from 13.1 metric tons last year, based on planting dates, Nicole Bouveris, an agronomist at the Paris- based researcher, said in a phone interview today.

2011-04-08T19:50:00.000+02:00

French Sugar Yields May Rise on Early Planting, Researcher Says
Bloomberg

By Rudy Ruitenberg - Fri Apr 08 16:10:46 GMT 2011 Sugar beet yields in France, the world's biggest grower of the root, may rise this year as an early start to planting gives the crop more time to develop, researcher Institut Technique de la Betterave ...

Fiji - FSC Executive Chairman Abdul Khan says the crop estimate for this year’s season is around 190,000 tonnes of sugar.

2011-04-08T11:21:00.001+02:00

FSC expects good crushing season
Fiji Broadcasting Corporation Ltd

The 2011 crushing season is expected to improve significantly compared to the past two seasons says the Fiji Sugar Corporation. FSC Executive Chairman Abdul Khan says the crop estimate for this year's season is expected to be more than 2.1 million ...

Brazil - The opening of the 2011/2012 national crop cane sugar will be held on April 14, the ceremony also marks the beginning of the agro-industrial operations in the bioenergy sector. The event will be at ETH - Unit Santa Luzia, 10:30 GMT.

2011-04-08T07:40:00.000+02:00

Opening the season 2011/2012 will be national in MS
Capital News

The opening of the 2011/2012 national crop cane sugar will be held on April 14, the ceremony also marks the beginning of the agro-industrial operations in the bioenergy sector. The event will be at ETH - Unit Santa Luzia, 10:30 GMT. ...

Russia’s raw-sugar imports rose 15 percent from October through March - 805,000 metric tons up from 703,000 the year before.

2011-04-08T07:38:00.000+02:00

Russia's Raw-Sugar Imports Rose 15%, Agriculture Institute Says
Bloomberg

By Marina Sysoyeva - Thu Apr 07 11:42:58 GMT 2011 Russia's raw-sugar imports rose 15 percent from October through March from a year earlier, according to ...

India - The Agriculture Ministry raised its estimate of the country's 2010/11 sugarcane output a little further to 340.54 mln tonnes in its third advance estimate of the current crop, up from 336.698 mln in its second estimate in February and compared with 324.91 mln in the first projection last September.

2011-04-08T07:32:00.000+02:00

India's AgMin raises 2010/11 sugarcane output estimate further
AgraNet

The Agriculture Ministry raised its estimate of the country's 2010/11 sugarcane output a little further to 340.54 mln tonnes in its third advance estimate of the current crop, up from 336.698 mln in its second estimate in February and compared with ...

Ukraine - The government has instructed the State Reserve Agency to purchase 140,000 tons of sugar in the third and fourth quarters 2011. This is stated in a decree of the Cabinet of Ministers.

2011-04-08T07:30:00.000+02:00

Ukraine. State Reserve Agency to purchase 140000 tons of sugar
UkrAgroConsult

It was reported that Ukraine, one of Europe's major beet sugar producers, in 2011 intends to increase sugar production to 2.1 million tons after 1.5 million in 2010, following the anticipated substantial increase in acreage.

Kenya produced 48,895 tonnes of sugar, white value, in November 2010, down slightly from 50,138 in the same month last year, Kenya Sugar Board data show.

2011-04-07T06:04:00.000+02:00

Sugar production in Kenya down 6.4% in Jan/Nov 2010
AgraNet

Kenya produced 48895 tonnes of sugar, white value, in November 2010, down slightly from 50138 in the same month last year, Kenya Sugar Board data show. That brought total output in the first eleven months of 2010 to 467800 tonnes, down 6.4% from 499856 ...

Cuba - The December-April harvest is nearly complete and should be slightly above forecasts, Sugar Ministry expert Osiris Quintero said. He did not give an exact figure but said it would be in the ballpark of the 1.1 million tons produced in 2010.

2011-04-07T06:01:00.000+02:00

Cuba reports sugar production to be akin to 2010
The Associated Press

More than 60 such machines have been deployed as part of an effert to update and streamline the chain of production, he said. Quintero also said Cuba is open to foreign investment in the sugar industry, but he did not say from where or give other ...

Brazil wants to increase regulation of the domestic ethanol market to ensure output, a senior government official said on Wednesday, signaling a move that could have major implications for global sugar supplies.

2011-04-07T05:57:00.000+02:00

Brazil wants greater regulation of sugar, ethanol
Reuters

World sugar prices are 25 percent off 30-year highs set in February and Brazilian cane mills have been pushing production of the sweetener close to capacity and at the expense of ethanol production. "Mills' plan for the new crop is to maximize sugar ...

As much as 200,000 metric tons of raw sugar are being shipped to the Black Sea region from Thailand, a “very rare” move, according to Swiss Sugar Brokers. About 90,000 tons of Thai sugar will be delivered to Russia in April, including 66,000 tons to the Black Sea ports, said Yevgeny Ivanov, an analyst at the institute also known as IKAR.

2011-04-06T17:57:00.000+02:00

Russia's Black Sea Imports Thai Sugar for First Time in 8 Years
Bloomberg

By Isis Almeida and Maria Kolesnikova - Wed Apr 06 13:16:43 GMT 2011 Russia's Black Sea ports are importing raw sugar from Thailand, the world's second largest exporter of the sweetener, for the first time in eight years in order to save money, ...

Thai sugar production in 2010/11 as of April 4 reached 8.535 mln tonnes, raw value, up by 20% year-on-year (7.120 mln) and also half a million tonnes above the previous record of 8.074 mln achieved in 2007/08.

2011-04-06T17:37:00.002+02:00

Thai sugar crop hits all-time high
AgraNet

Thai sugar production in 2010/11 as of April 4 reached 8.535 mln tonnes, raw value, up by 20% year-on-year (7.120 mln) and also half a million tonnes above the previous record of 8.074 mln achieved in 2007/08. Moreover, with daily production rates of over 60,000 tonnes of sugar, the crop shows continuing strength. By April 4 the total cane crush had already reached 80.1 mln tonnes compared with 68.2 mln last season. Of the total sugar production 2.884 mln tonnes were whites (2.929 mln). Molasses production also reached an all-time high of 3.4 mln tonnes compared with 2.9 mln last year and the 2007/08 record of 3.3 mln

Sugar Australia, which is owned by Sucrogen and Mackay Sugar Limited, is importing raw sugar to boost stores at its Racecourse refinery, which supplies the industrial and consumer sugar market and markets the CSR Sugar brand.

2011-04-05T19:59:00.000+02:00

Mackay imports sugar from Thailand
Mackay Daily Mercury

IT'S like selling ice to the Eskimos: about 40000 tonnes of Thai sugar is being shipped into Mackay to top up dwindling reserves after a disastrous, waterlogged harvest. Sugar Australia, which is owned by Sucrogen and Mackay Sugar Limited, is importing ...