Trinidad & Tobago - Government is looking at proposals by farmers to reopen the sugar industry and access funds from the European Union, Food Production Minister Vasant Bharath said yesterday.

Govt eyes proposals to reopen sugar industry
Trinidad & Tobago Express

Government is looking at proposals by farmers to reopen the sugar industry and access funds from the European Union, Food Production Minister Vasant Bharath ...

Brasil - os embarques de açúcar na região Centro-Sul cerca de 2,9 milhão de toneladas em junho de 2010.

Embarque de açúçar provoca filas em Santos
odiario.com

Os embarques brasileiros de açúcar devem registrar um recorde histórico de volume no mês de junho nos portos do Centro-Sul e provocam problemas logísticos ...

Brazil’s sugar production may decline next year, prompting prices to rise 15 percent as soon as the fourth quarter, according to Cosan SA Industria & Comercio, the world’s top cane processor.

Brazil Sugar Output May Drop Next Year on Yields, Cosan Says
BusinessWeek

By Lucia Kassai June 18 (Bloomberg) -- Brazil's sugar production may decline next year, prompting prices to rise 15 percent as soon as the fourth quarter, ...

España - COAG Andalucía ha informado hoy del inicio el próximo martes de la campaña de la remolacha con la previsión de recolectar casi 425.000 toneladas.

La campaña de la remolacha arrancará con una previsión de 425.000 ...
La Voz Digital (Cádiz)

OCM DEL AZUCAR Desde que se aprobara la nueva OCM del azúcar, el sector ha vivido un fuerte proceso de reestructuración que ha provocado una considerable ...

Brazil - Nos próximos 30 dias, as empresas interessadas em construir o terminal açucareiro poderão participar do processo licitatório

Aprovada licitação de terminal
Noticiário cotidiano Portos e Logística
Sex, 18 de Junho de 2010 07:23

Nos próximos 30 dias, as empresas interessadas em construir o terminal açucareiro, no Complexo Industrial Portuário de Suape, poderão participar do processo licitatório no valor de US$ 53 milhões. Isso porque, na última

Honduras - The small Central American country will produce 431,000 tonnes of sugar in the upcoming harvest, which begins in November

Honduras sees 201011 sugar crop rising 6.4 pct...

Honduras to boost output 6.4 pct due to strong prices * Improving farm practices to help boost future crops * Honduran sugar exports seen up 12.6 pct in ...

Russia imported 386,000 metric tons of raw sugar in January-April

DJ Russia JanApril Raw Sugar Imports Up On Year At 386000 Tons

Raw sugar imports in April totaled 18900 tons which is 77.6% of the amount imported in April 2009 and 12% of the amount imported in March this year

Guatemala - "Datos de Asazgua al 8 de junio revelan que los envíos a diversos países del mundo han alcanzado 1 millón 372 mil toneladas métricas

Azucareros superan golpes del mercado
Siglo XXI

El ingreso habría sido de unos $251.6 millones más

India’s top sugar producing state, Maharashtra, will start crushing from October 1, a month earlier than last year

Maharashtra to advance cane crushing by a month
Business Standard

The crop will be harvested in the next sugar year. The sugar year runs from October through September but crushing typically starts in November. ...

Algeria's Cevital, the biggest sugar refiner in north Africa, has more than doubled its annual output capacity to 1.65 million tonnes

Algeria's Cevital doubles white sugar output
Reuters Africa

His father and Cevital's Chief Executive Issad Rebrab told Reuters in September the sugar production of the family-owned company was 800000 tonnes last year ...

Australia's northernmost sugar mill is expecting its best season in years with the crush officially starting today.

Oz Mills Expect Sweet Cane Harvest
ABC online

The sugar harvest in the Herbert will start next week. Herbert is a cane growing region in Queensland. Meanwhile, the strikes at the Sucrogen mill have ...

Thailand - ""I probably won't cancel the recent approval [of new mills] because it has already passed [the cabinet approval] stage. But I will look into the details".....

New minister to revamp sugar production system
Bangkok Post

The Industry Ministry plans to reorganise the sugar production system by co-operating with the Office of the Cane and Sugar Board (OCSB), saying clearer policies are needed.

OECD - World sugar prices to 2019 will also be above the average of the previous decade but well below the 29-year highs experienced at the end of 2009.

Despite increased production, steady demand growth underpins sugar prices
OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook 2009-10

World prices of sugar, historically one of the more volatile of agricultural
commodities, have been following a different rhythm of late than those of the major
temperate zone crops. World sugar prices were relatively low in 2007/08 when other
commodity prices surged and then reached 29 year highs in February 2010, while the
others declined

Sugar production in Mauritius will decline this year, from 467,234 to 450,000 tonnes, according to the Chamber of Agriculture

Sugar production declines in Mauritius
Afrique en ligne

The decline is a direct fall in the production of sugar canes, from 4.67 million tonnes in 2009 to 4.4 million tonnes in 2010

The June issue of the SUGAR AND SWEETENERS OUTLOOK is available

The June issue of the SUGAR AND SWEETENERS OUTLOOK is available in PDF format. You are able to view this publication at:

http://usda.mannlib.cornell.edu/MannUsda/viewDocumentInfo.do?documentID=1386


The next issue of SUGAR AND SWEETENERS OUTLOOK will be released on July 13, 2010.  This report examines world and U.S. production, consumption, trade, stocks, and prices for beet and cane sugar, and high fructose corn syrup.

Mexico has so far produced 4,789,189 tonnes of sugar in the 2009/10 harvest, 3.45 percent less than in the same period last year, the National Cane Workers Union said on Monday.

TABLE-Mexico sugar output at 4.79 tonnes to June 12
XE.com

The harvest is coming to a close and nearing the 4.8 million tonnes estimated to be produced by the country's sugar industry.

Presidential Proclamation--Costa Rica Sugar

Presidential Proclamation--Costa Rica Sugar |
The White House

(1) In order to provide for the preferential tariff treatment being accorded under the Agreement for certain sugar and sugar-containing goods of Costa Rica ...

carryover stocks into the 2010-11 sugar season from the current year will be as high as 4.9 million tonnes, the Indian Sugar Mills Association (ISMA) has said.

ISMA pegs year end sugar stocks at much higher than food min
Economic Times

Minister Sharad Pawar is understood to be in favour of the demand by the sugar industry but may have been convinced enough to tone down the level of import ...

India increased the price paid to mills for refined supply under a government program, Farm Minister Sharad Pawar said.

India Raises Sugar Price for Producers on Higher Cane Costs
BusinessWeek

The mills can sell their remaining output at market rates. The government controls the sugar market by telling mills how much they should sell each month. ...

In April 2009 British Sugar was granted permission by the Broads Authority to refine raw sugar cane imported from the Third World throughout the summer months if decides to go ahead with the £35m scheme.

Transport plan for Cantley sugar factory
Great Yarmouth Mercury

A scheme to transport raw sugar cane from Great Yarmouth to a proposed £35m processing plant at the British Sugar site at Cantley is feasible, ...

Minag precisó que esta carga de azúcar rubia proviene de Brasil y su ingreso al mercado peruano servirá para abaratar dicho producto para los consumidores

Ministro de Agricultura supervisará descarga de primer embarque de ...
Andina

El ministro de Agricultura, Adolfo De Córdova, supervisará hoy los trabajos de descarga del embarque con las primeras 11500 toneladas de azúcar rubia ...