Sugarflows: 19/07/2009

Saturday, 25 July 2009

TCP to import 50000 tonnes sugar

TCP to import 50000 tonnes sugar
The News International
KARACHI: Trade Corporation of Pakistan (TCP) will import 50000 tonnes of sugar with a view to bring stability in the price of the commodity in the local ...

TCP to import 50000 tonnes sugar

A&B mulls sugar's future

A&B mulls sugar's future
Honolulu Star-Bulletin - Honolulu,HI,USA
Gay & Robinson said last September that due to the rising costs of sugar operations -- including fuel and fertilizer -- it was ending sugar production and ...

A&B mulls sugar's future

Friday, 24 July 2009

Sudan - REPORT : A great and ambitious sugar plan to produce 13 million tons of sugar By: Elham Mahmoud

Sudan - REPORT : A great and ambitious sugar plan to produce 13 ...

Khartoum/24/7/Suna/

He added that the objective of the plan is to realize self sufficiency for Sudan from the sugar commodity and the accompanying industries and to export the ...

Sudan - REPORT : A great and ambitious sugar plan to produce 13 million tons of sugar By: Elham Mahmoud

FBD: Simbhaoli plans to import 250000 tons of raw sugar

FBD: Simbhaoli plans to import 250000 tons of raw sugar for ...

FoodBizDaily.com (press release) - Westport,CT,USA

In April, the Central Government allowed mills to import duty-free raw sugar till 1St August, 2009 under open general license, without any export obligation ...

FBD: Simbhaoli plans to import 250000 tons of raw sugar

TCP takes steps to ease sugar prices

TCP takes steps to ease sugar prices
Pakistan Daily Mail - Islamabad,Pakistan
... of its present stock in the “open market” to over come the so-called shortage and to curb the rising trend of the prices of Sugar in the local market.

TCP takes steps to ease sugar prices

Illovo: Rights Offer | Bizcast

Illovo: Rights Offer | Bizcast

By admin

Illovo Sugar Limited (Incorporated in the Republic of South Africa) Registration number 1906/000622/06 Share Code: ILV ISIN: ZAE000083846 ( ... is consolidating its business in South Africa and continuing to pursue major investments outside
South Africa in areas that have positive and stable social, political and economic fundamentals, adequate water and land resources, favourable climatic and agronomic conditions, strong local sugar markets and good export potential.

Illovo: Rights Offer | Bizcast

INTERVIEW India 09/10 raw sugar import likely 2.83.0 mln T | Reuters

INTERVIEW India 09/10 raw sugar import likely 2.83.0 mln T | Reuters

By Mayank Bhardwaj NEW DELHI, July 24 (Reuters) - India is likely to import 2.8-3.0 million tonnes of raw sugar in the new season from October,

INTERVIEW India 09/10 raw sugar import likely 2.83.0 mln T | Reuters

Zambia's Zanaco Bank Funds Sugar Farm Purchase

Zambia's Zanaco Bank Funds Sugar Farm Purchase
FLEXNEWS - Labege,France
Zanaco said Zambia Sugar Plc , a unit of South Africa's Illovo Sugar , had completed the ... in a bid to increase sugar exports to the European Union (EU). ...

Zambia's Zanaco Bank Funds Sugar Farm Purchase

Tongaat Hulett gets 50pc profit from Zim

Tongaat Hulett gets 50pc profit from Zim
The Herald
Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:31 PM PDT
LOCAL operations of South African-based agro-processing firm Tongaat Hulett have contributed at least 50 percent of the R644-million that the company expects to realise from profits from its sugar operations.

Tongaat Hulett gets 50pc profit from Zim

The captain of the Greek owned Ioannis NK reported at 6am that the carrier, with 22,500 metric tons of sugar onboard, was taking on water and listing

20 rescued from sinking ship
Straits Times Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:59 PM PDT
JOHANNESBURG - TWENTY crew members were rescued on Thursday off a bulk carrier before it sank off South Africa's west coast en route from Brazil to India, a marine rescue authority said. The captain of the Greek owned Ioannis NK reported at 6am that the carrier, with 22,500 metric tons of sugar onboard, was taking on water and listing, said Maritime Rescue and Co-ordination Centre spokesman ...

The captain of the Greek owned Ioannis NK reported at 6am that the carrier, with 22,500 metric tons of sugar onboard, was taking on water and listing

Fire at mill cuts sugar production

Fire at mill cuts sugar production

ABC Online - Australia

Sugarcane harvesters in the Herbert River district of North Queensland remain on reduced daily quotas, after an incident at Macknade mill on Wednesday. .

Fire at mill cuts sugar production

FBD: Triveni's sugar sales increases 33% in Q 2 (India)

FBD: Triveni's sugar sales increases 33% in Q 2 (India)

FoodBizDaily.com (press release) - Westport,CT,USA

The free sugar prices rose quarter over quarter by 12% and we believe that the trend in sugar prices movement will be sustained in future. ...

FBD: Triveni's sugar sales increases 33% in Q 2 (India)

Thursday, 23 July 2009

Russia produced from Jan. 1 to July 20 1.465 million metric tons of refined sugar from imported raws

SOFTS HIGHLIGHTS: Top Stories Of The Day
INO News Thu, 23 Jul 2009 03:50 AM PDT
MOSCOW (Dow Jones)--Russia produced from Jan. 1 to July 20 1.465 million metric tons of refined sugar from imported raws compared with 1.782 million tons in the corresponding period last year, the national association of sugar producers Soyuzrossakhar said Thursday.

Russia produced from Jan. 1 to July 20 1.465 million metric tons of refined sugar from imported raws

JA top sugar producer in the C'bean

JA top sugar producer in the C'bean
radiojamaica.com - Jamaica
Total sugar exports from the region to the end of June came in at 394663 tonnes. Chairman of the Sugar Association of the Caribbean Karl James, ...

JA top sugar producer in the C'bean

More Brazil Cane Mills in Arrears with Suppliers

More Brazil Cane Mills in Arrears with Suppliers
FLEXNEWS - Labege,France
Sugar prices have risen significantly in the last few months, due mainly to India, which has gone from net sugar exporter to net importer after a steep drop ...

More Brazil Cane Mills in Arrears with Suppliers

Delta sugar mills suffer as farmers turn to other crops

Delta sugar mills suffer as farmers turn to other crops
Viet Nam News Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:44 AM PDT
CUU LONG DELTASugar mills in the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta, which struggled to procure sugarcane for processing last year, are set for a worse time this season after many farmers switched to growing other crops because of sugarcane's low profitability.

Delta sugar mills suffer as farmers turn to other crops

Zambia Sugar breaks into Zim market

Zambia Sugar breaks into Zim market
ZAMBIA Sugar has broken into the Zimbabwean market and will be exporting an initial 28,000 tonnes of sugar this year, company corporate affairs manager, Lovemore Sievu has said.

Zambia Sugar breaks into Zim market

Dalmia Cement to produce 215,000 tonnes of sugar in FY10

Dalmia Cement to produce 215,000 tonnes of sugar in FY10

Reuters via Yahoo! Asia News Wed, 22 Jul 2009 02:21 AM PDT

NEW DELHI, July 22 (Reuters) - Dalmia Cement expects to produce 215,000 tonnes of sugar in FY10, its managing director Puneet Dalmia said on a conference call.

Dalmia Cement to produce 215,000 tonnes of sugar in FY10

Farmers demand bigger stake in sugar firms

Farmers demand bigger stake in sugar firms

Standard - Nairobi,Kenya

By Kepher Otieno Sugar cane farmers in Nyanza Province are demanding a 51 per cent stake in the state owned sugar companies, which are due for privatisation ...

Farmers demand bigger stake in sugar firms

Tongaat Hulett sees big jump in interim profit

Tongaat Hulett sees big jump in interim profit

By Creamer Media Reporter

However, with the Zimbabwean economy moving to a US dollar and rand-based economy, some key fundamentals had been restored and some “unrealistic local market sugar price realisations” had been removed. ...

Tongaat Hulett sees big jump in interim profit

Barbados Signs Agreement With EU

Barbados Signs Agreement With EU

South Florida Caribbean News - Pembroke Pines,FL,USA

Barbados Adaptation Strategy which was established to support Sugar Protocol Countries as a result of a 36 per cent decline in sugar export revenues,

Barbados Signs Agreement With EU

Sugar bomb; may explode in Ramazan

Sugar bomb; may explode in Ramazan

The News International - Karachi,Pakistan

He claimed there would hardly be any possibility of shortage of sugar in the current calendar year. He hailed cancellation of sugar import tenders by the

Sugar bomb; may explode in Ramazan

Mills have sugar stock of 1,740,505 tons

Mills have sugar stock of 1.740505 million tons

The Nation, Pakistan - Karachi,Pakistan

He said the Government is responsible for sugar price hike because last year sugarcane support price was raised from Rs.60/40 kg to Rs.80/40 kg. ...

Mills have sugar stock of 1,740,505 tons

Wednesday, 22 July 2009

India to consider extending raw sugar imports-min

India to consider extending raw sugar imports-min

Reuters India - Mumbai,India

NEW DELHI, July 22 (Reuters) - India's cabinet will consider on Thursday a proposal to allow tax-free imports of raw sugar beyond July 31, Farm Minsiter ...

India to consider extending raw sugar imports-min

India's Biggest Sugar Refiner to Double Imports

India's Biggest Sugar Refiner to Double Imports

Bloomberg - USA

Production is forecast to slump 44 percent to 14.7 million tons in the year to Sept. 30. Stockpiles may be close to zero in the year starting Oct. 1, ...

India's Biggest Sugar Refiner to Double Imports

Nigeria: Inside The Country's Only Sugar Factory

Nigeria: Inside The Country's Only Sugar Factory

Unlike India which has 650 sugar factories, Nigeria's one and only sugar producing factory-the Savannah Sugar Company in Numan, Adamawa State- is marching ahead as its owners pumped N12 billion into it. Other sugar companies in the country, including the Bacita Sugar Company in Kwara State merely import and refine raw sugar.

Nigeria: Inside The Country's Only Sugar Factory

Rwanda: Sugarcane Prices Increase by 16.9 Percent

Rwanda: Sugarcane Prices Increase by 16.9 Percent

AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA

"It also helps the farmers to get more money if the sugar price is high. This is the highest ever we have paid per tonne," he said.

Rwanda: Sugarcane Prices Increase by 16.9 Percent

Sugar production decreased by 30 %

Sugar production decreased by 30 %

Kazakhstan Today

ASTANA, July 22 (Kazakhstan Today) - Volume of production of sugar has decreased by 29.2 % in Kazakhstan in January - June, 2009 and has been 169 956 tons, ...

Sugar production decreased by 30 %

CM's plan to privatise sugar mills takes off

CM's plan to privatise sugar mills takes off

Indian Express - New Delhi,India

The UP government's effort to privatise 61 sugar mills — 28 mills in the cooperative sector and 33 in the public sector — seem to be finally making some ...

CM's plan to privatise sugar mills takes off

Industry, govt decide not to import sugar

Industry, govt decide not to import sugar

The News International - Karachi,Pakistan

According to PSMA estimates sugar consumption has declined to 3.7m tons a year. “Almost 70 percent of sugar is used in industries making beverages, ...

Industry, govt decide not to import sugar

China June Sugar Imports Down 36% On Year At 90800 Tons

China June Sugar Imports Down 36% On Year At 90800 Tons
BEIJING Dow Jones China's sugar imports in June fell 36% on year to 90800 metric tons the General Administration of Customs said Wednesday ...

China June Sugar Imports Down 36% On Year At 90800 Tons

Mills demand end to sugar smuggling to Afghanistan

Mills demand end to sugar smuggling to Afghanistan
Daily Times - Lahore,Pakistan
He said that there is no sales tax on gur while sugar industry was paying tax on sugar production. "We are not against the production of gur but some

Mills demand end to sugar smuggling to Afghanistan

Tuesday, 21 July 2009

Sugar policy must move towards quality issues

Sugar policy must move towards quality issues

Sugar cane producer prices are controversial and tricky to determine. The push by the Agriculture Minister to set prices at Sh2,500 a metric tonne and hopes of Sh3,500 a tonne when millers diversify is difficult to support given the realities of the local and international commodity markets.

Sugar policy must move towards quality issues

Uganda: Sugar Prices Soar as Shilling Falls

Uganda: Sugar Prices Soar as Shilling Falls

AllAfrica.com

Over the last two months, there has been an escalation in sugar prices in the country. In April, the price of one kilogramme of sugar rose from Shs1,800 to ...

Uganda: Sugar Prices Soar as Shilling Falls

DJ India Dharani Sugars Imports 50000 Tons Raw Sugar In Jul-Exec

DJ India Dharani Sugars Imports 50000 Tons Raw Sugar In Jul-Exec

MarketWatch (press release)

He said the company wasn't planning to import more raw sugar for the next few months because of high international prices, which are being quoted around ...

DJ India Dharani Sugars Imports 50000 Tons Raw Sugar In Jul-Exec

PSMA seeks govt's permission for sugar imports

JALAYBI.COM » Blog Archive » PSMA seeks govt's permission for ...

By Messam

During July-Mar 2008-09, sugar production declined by 26 per cent compared with a rise of 34pc in the corresponding period of the previous year as confrontation between sugar mills and growers over sugarcane price persisted,

PSMA seeks govt's permission for sugar imports

Maharashtra seizes 33500T sugar from raids-sources

Maharashtra seizes 33500T sugar from raids-sources
Reuters India
India had released 1.49 million tonnes of non-levy sugar for July. Non-levy, or free sale sugar, is sold by millers in the open market, but the quantity ...

Maharashtra seizes 33500T sugar from raids-sources

Triveni Engineering net up 62%

Triveni Engineering net up 62%
Business Standard India Mon, 20 Jul 2009 12:00 PM PDT
Riding on high sugar prices, Triveni Engineering and Industries, the country's third largest sugar producing company, has registered a 62 per cent jump in its net profit for the quarter ended June 30. Net profit for the quarter stood at Rs 39.8 crore as against Rs 24.60 crore in the corresponding quarter last year.

Triveni Engineering net up 62%

Kenya: Firm to Crush Cane, Supply 17 Megawatts

Kenya: Firm to Crush Cane, Supply 17 Megawatts
AllAfrica.comMon, 20 Jul 2009 09:48 AM PDT
Nairobi Kwale International Sugar Company Limited (KISCOL) will start crushing sugar cane at its Msambweni based factory in the year 2012. The company is also scheduled to produce 30,000 litres of ethanol per day and 17 megawatts of electricity.

Kenya: Firm to Crush Cane, Supply 17 Megawatts

PSMA seeks govt's permission for sugar imports today

PSMA seeks govt's permission for sugar imports today
The News International - Karachi,Pakistan
By By our correspondent KARACHI: Pakistan's sugar producers are asking the government today (Tuesday) to allow import of raw sugar to meet an expected ...

PSMA seeks govt's permission for sugar imports today

Monday, 20 July 2009

UNICA - Açúcar bate recorde de exportação no primeiro semestre de 2009;

Açúcar bate recorde de exportação no primeiro semestre de 2009;
20/07/2009

As exportações de açúcar bateram recorde no mercado brasileiro no primeiro semestre de 2009 em relação ao mesmo período no ano passado - UNICA

UNICA - Açúcar bate recorde de exportação no primeiro semestre de 2009;

DJ Brazil Sees Record Income For Sugar Exports In 1H 2009 -Unica

DJ Brazil Sees Record Income For Sugar Exports In 1H 2009 -Unica

MarketWatch (press release) - USA

Mills ramped up sugar production as the average remuneration for Brazilian domestic sugar sales was 51% higher than hydrous ethanol, a gasoline substitute, ...

DJ Brazil Sees Record Income For Sugar Exports In 1H 2009 -Unica

Agriculture sector deemed ill-prepared

Agriculture sector deemed ill-prepared

BusinessWorld Online - Quezon City,Philippines

The sugar industry is clamoring for postponement of the tariff cut to 2015. "Thailand has big production [of sugar] and they [sic] are near the Philippines ...

Agriculture sector deemed ill-prepared

Llegó Villa Clara a las 120 000 toneladas de azúcar refino

Llegó Villa Clara a las 120 000 toneladas de azúcar refino
Radio CMHW - Cuba
Al concluir la primera mitad de julio, Villa Clara concretó el programa anual de azúcar refinada ascendente a las 120 mil toneladas con el propósito de ...

Llegó Villa Clara a las 120 000 toneladas de azúcar refino

La production de betterave et de canne à sucre en baisse de 10%

La production de betterave et de canne à sucre en baisse de 10%
La Vie Éco - Casablanca,Morocco
Elle devra importer plus de sucre brut au moment où les cours mondiaux flambent. En raison des inondations enregistrées dans le Gharb et le Loukkos en ...

La production de betterave et de canne à sucre en baisse de 10%

El programa exportador no da resultados, según cañeros

El programa exportador no da resultados, según cañeros
La Gaceta Tucumán - Tucumán,Argentina
El titular de UCIT dijo que los agricultores se ven obligados a vender su azúcar blanco para poder subsistir. DISCREPANCIAS. Los cañeros se quejan porque ..

El programa exportador no da resultados, según cañeros

Ban on raw sugar import causes rise in price

Ban on raw sugar import causes rise in price
DAWN.com - Karachi,Pakistan
According to the sources, imported raw sugar costs $80 to $90 a ton less than refined sugar. 'If we had imported raw sugar at that time the sugar price ...

Ban on raw sugar import causes rise in price

Sunday, 19 July 2009

PENANG TO PROBE SUGAR SHORTAGE

PENANG TO PROBE SUGAR SHORTAGE
Bernama via Yahoo! Malaysia News Sun, 19 Jul 2009 02:11 AM PDT

PENANG, July 19 (Bernama) -- The Penang state government will investigate recent reports regarding shortage of sugar in the state and in the northern region of the country.