Thailand's TCSC Sells 60,000 Tons 2010-11 Raw Sugar Via Tender

DJ Thailand's TCSC Sells 60,000 Tons 2010-11 Raw Sugar Via Tender
SINGAPORE, Oct 15, 2009 (Dow Jones Commodities News via Comtex)

Thai Cane and Sugar Corp. sold 60,000 metric tons of raw sugar from the 2010-11 crop at discounts in a tender Thursday, a company official said.

Ukraine To Import 267,800 Tons Raw Sugar In 2010

DJ Ukraine To Import 267,800 Tons Raw Sugar In 2010
MOSCOW, Oct 16, 2009 (Dow Jones Commodities News via Comtex)

The Ukrainian government said Friday that the import quota for raw sugar for 2010 will total 267,800 metric tons, with.....

Vietnam - Approval given for sugar import boost

Approval given for sugar import boost
Viet Nam News

HA NOI — An additional sugar import of 10000 tonnes has been approved by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. The Ministry of Industry and ...

Australia - Maryborough Sugar Factory forecasts increased profit

Maryborough Sugar Factory forecasts increased profit
Queensland Business Review

Nearing the end of a successful season, the Maryborough Sugar Factory (MSF) is forecasting an increased net profit after tax in the range of $5.5 million to ...

United States/Mexico - Sugar market remains strong

Sugar market remains strong
Capital Press (subscription)

"We are hopeful that the sugar beet and sugar cane harvests under way will continue to be strong, and assuming they are, we project that the market will ...

Venezuela - Más de 107.000 toneladas de azúcar cruda arribarán al país en

Más de 107.000 toneladas de azúcar cruda arribarán al país en ...
Agencia Bolivariana de Noticias

Caracas, 15 Oct. ABN- Más de 107 toneladas de azúcar cruda arribarán a Venezuela a partir de este fin de semana y durante los próximos 15 días, ...

Russia produced to Oct. 12 1.317 million metric tons of refined sugar from beet

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INO News Thu, 15 Oct 2009 03:02 AM PDT

MOSCOW (Dow Jones)--Russia produced to Oct. 12 1.317 million metric tons of refined sugar from beet harvested this year, slightly up from 1.310 million tons on the same date last year, the sugar producers association Soyuzrossakhar reported Thursday.

Kenya - Investor interest broadens sugar factories sale options

Investor interest broadens sugar factories sale options
Business Daily Africa

The visits came just days before a Saudi group Midroc al-Amoudi announced plans to construct a sugar refinery in Yemen targeting the horn of Africa market ...

Macquarie prevê excedente de 3 mi/t de açúcar em 2010/11

Macquarie prevê excedente de 3 mi/t de açúcar em 2010/11
Último Segundo

Londres, 15 - O mercado mundial de açúcar deverá voltar a registrar excedente de produção na safra 2010/11, após dois anos de déficits consecutivos, ...

Peru - In the first seven months of 2009, sugar production reached 569,205 tonnes

Peru's Exports Of Organic Food Will Rise 13% In 2009 To US$225mn
OfficialWire (press release)

In the first seven months of 2009, sugar production reached 569205 tonnes, up 9.7% from the same period of 2008. Millers have been benefiting from the high ...

Philippines - Government wants Afta tariff for rice at 35% to 40%

Government wants Afta tariff for rice at 35% to 40%
Business Mirror

The Philippines, however, has decided to negotiate for slower tariff reductions on sugar. Trade and agriculture officials involved in Afta-CEPT negotiations ...

South Africa sugar producers hopeful of EU trade deal

SAfrica sugar producers hopeful of EU trade deal
Forexyard

... will conclude an Economic Partnership Agreement with the European Union that would allow them to export sugar into the EU, industry officials said. ...

South Africa 2009/10 sugar output seen up at 2.33 mln tonnes

S.Africa 2009/10 sugar output seen up at 2.33 mln tonnes
Reuters South Africa

South Africa's sugarcane production fell by 400000 tonnes in the 2008/09 season compared with the previous season, while sugar production in the year also ...

United States - Beet harvest critical in wake of freeze

Beet harvest critical in wake of freeze
Casper Star-Tribune Online

Western Sugar Company director Ric Rodriguez says some of the frozen beets will heal with warmer temperatures. But the restart of the harvest is being ...

Ukraine - Economy Ministry upgrades forecast for sugar deficit

Economy Ministry upgrades forecast for sugar deficit
NRCU - Ukrainian Radio

He also said that the ministry had started accepting bids for the issuance of licenses for the import of raw sugar as part of Ukraine's agreement on ...

India's sugar imports in 2008/09

FACTBOX-India's sugar imports in 2008/09
Reuters India

Oct 14 (Reuters) - Large imports of raw sugar by India, the world's top consumer and the biggest producer behind Brazil, have helped prices surge to the ...

Licht sees rise in sugar output in 2009/10

Licht sees rise in sugar output in 2009/10
Reuters India

... million tonnes in 2009/10 from 150.0 million in 2008/09, German analyst FO Licht said in its first forecast for sugar production in the new crop year. ...

Swaziland - Interim EPA saves local sugar industry

Interim EPA saves local sugar industry

MBABANE – If government had not signed the interim EPA the local sugar industry would be doomed with over 200 000 tonnes of sugar without a market ...

Brazil - André inaugura usina de açúcar e álcool em Nova Alvorada do Sul

André inaugura usina de açúcar e álcool em Nova Alvorada do Sul ...
Portal MS - Notícias

... três pólos produtivos, localizados nos estados de São Paulo, Goiás e Mato Grosso do Sul, ocupando mais de 520 mil hectares de cultivo de cana-de-açúcar. ...

Thailand to Sell 120000 Tons of Raw Sugar in Auction This Week

Thailand to Sell 120000 Tons of Raw Sugar in Auction This Week
Bloomberg

By Supunnabul Suwannakij Oct. 13 (Bloomberg) -- Thailand, the world's second-largest sugar exporter, will sell 120000 metric tons of raw sugar on Oct 15. ...

INTERIEW-India to buy 7-9 mln T sugar in '09/10-top producer

INTERIEW-India to buy 7-9 mln T sugar in '09/10-top producer
Reuters India

The government last month estimated India's sugar production would rise to 16 million tonnes in 2009/10. "A lot has happened since that estimate. ...

Egypt - Govt imports sugar to meet local demand

Govt imports sugar to meet local demand
Al-Masry Al-Youm English Edition

He said that per-ton import prices ranged between LE3500 and LE3700. Kamel explained that the government would allocate all imported sugar to meeting the ...

Saudi Savola-led JV to bid for Turkish sugar plants

Saudi Savola-led JV to bid for Turkish sugar plants
Forbes

"Having local sugar production capabilities provide an edge to local sugar producers when sugar importers are subject to import duties, (since) sugar is ...

China Keeps 2010 Sugar Import Quota Unchanged At 1.945

INOcom News China Keeps 2010 Sugar Import Quota Unchanged At 1.945 ...
SINGAPORE Dow Jones

China's Ministry of Commerce said Tuesday the country will keep its sugar import quota unchanged next year at 1.945 million metric tons ...

Philippines to ship out entire 2010 US sugar quota by Nov.

Philippines to ship out entire 2010 US sugar quota by Nov.
Business Mirror

For crop year ending August 31, 2010, PSMA projects the Philippine sugar production to grow by 5 percent to 2.16 MMT. The Philippines had been hoping for ...

Saudi firm eyes Africa with Yemen sugar refinery

Saudi firm eyes Africa with Yemen sugar refinery
Reuters South Africa

RIYADH (Reuters) – Saudi private group Midroc al-Amoudi plans to start by the end of 2011 production at a planned sugar refinery in Yemen which will export …

Ethiopian Comodity Exchange (ECX) trading to sweeten sugar price ?

Ethiopian Comodity Exchange (ECX) trading to sweeten sugar price?
Good News Ethiopia (blog)

When the price failed to decline, the government invited the public to whistle blow on the dealers that are selling the product above the tariff. ...

Mozambican sugar industry expected to produce 382000 tonnes of sugar this year

Mozambican sugar industry expected to produce 382000 tonnes of sugar this year ...
Macauhub

Maputo, Mozambique, 12 Oct – Mozambique's sugar industry expects to produce 3.2 million tonnes of sugar cane, 382000 tonnes of sugar and 99000 tonnes of ...

Ukraine - Sugar Output In September

Sugar Output In September
Millennium Capital

We explain the increase in the sugar output by a quite high sugar price on the market and the desire of the sugar producers to increase their sales. ...

Brazil - Ethanol - Economically, it likely makes little sense for Brazil to import

Ethanol Lifts Corn Prices
Wall Street Journal
Economically, it likely makes little sense for Brazil to import, given its 20% tariff on imported ethanol, said Don Roose, president of US Commodities in ...

India - October to decide UP sugar sector's fortunes

October to decide UP sugar sector's fortunes
Business Standard
This period would decide the future of the UP sugar industry and cane farmers. While the fate of the government sugar mills put on block for privatisation ...

India - Sugar mills look at inter-cropping option to augment cane supplies

Sugar mills look at inter-cropping option to augment cane supplies
Hindu Business Line
With their crushing capacities far outstripping sugarcane availability and growers moving to more remunerative crops, northern sugar mills are seeking to ...

L'île Maurice dope son industrie sucrière

L'île Maurice dope son industrie sucrière
Le Figaro

Lundi, les premiers containers de sucre raffiné quitteront Port-Louis pour l'Europe où il sera commercialisé par le géant allemand du secteur, Südzucker. ...

Egypt's SIIC seeks 50000 T raw sugar

Egypt's SIIC seeks 50000 T raw sugar
Reuters South Africa

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's state-owned Sugar and Integrated Industries Company said on Sunday it was seeking bids for 50000 tonnes of raw sugar. ...

United States - Ideal weather yields best sugar beet harvest in recent years

Ideal weather yields best sugar beet harvest in recent years
Trading Markets (press release)
Years ending in the number nine, he recalled, have historically had bad harvest weather. Bob Abrams of Berthoud grew up on a sugar beet farm south of ...

Spain - La falta de dimensión y de compromiso debilitan el tejido

«La falta de dimensión y de compromiso debilitan el tejido ...
El Norte de Castilla
Ser capaces de atravesar esta tempestad, preparando el futuro como lo estamos preparando con la cuarta productora de azúcar a nivel mundial, que es Tereos; ...

Bolivia - Amenazan a productores si precio del azúcar sube

Amenazan a productores si precio del azúcar sube

El Gobierno advirtió ayer con aplicar medidas de liberación de las importaciones de azúcar y restricciones a la exportación del producto si su precio en el ...