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AUSTRALIA'S biggest exporter of raw sugar, Queensland Sugar, cannot keep pace with demand and sees potential to expand production, particularly in the north of the country, its acting chief executive officer, Greg Beashel, said.

Sugar Regulatory Administration chief Ma. Regina Bautista-Martin yesterday denied that Sugar Order No. 7, Series of 2011-2012, prescribing the deadline for verification of A sugar or U.S. quota sugar on January 31, will lead to homeless sugar.

Australian cane growers say a tax on foods containing high sugar levels isn't neccessary.

NAGPUR: Moving one step ahead in the development of a technology to produce biodiesel from algae, the National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (Neeri) is now planning to scale up the technology to industrial scale in collaboration with Purti Power and Sugar Ltd. If the scaling up yields good results, the technology would be commercialized by the industry to produce biodiesel using 'chlorella', an algae which has given good results at laboratory level. Neeri and Purti would be signing an MOU this week to start the scale up trials.

I don't want to get into a scientific argument about the research that was published in the scientific journal Nature regarding the toxicity of sugar. I understand sugar is not empty calories and could lead to metabolic disorders

GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) - The union representing locked-out employees at American Crystal Sugar. Co. plans to lobby against the federal sugar program in Congress, breaking a tradition of fighting for the program alongside farmers and the company.

GOVERNMENT has set aside K40 billion for infrastructure development in the Luena Farm Bloc in Kawambwa District, Luapula Province.

Michael Gibbon has been appointed chief executive of leading multi-disciplinary consulting, project engineering, construction and operational management group Bosch Holdings.

TANZANIA stands a good chance of becoming sugarself sufficient and net exporter of the essential product if there are strategic moves to attract more investors in the local sugar sub-sector.

The Bakery Worker's union now will lobby against the sugar program in Congress, according to a union official, breaking a long tradition of fighting for the program with farmers and American Crystal Sugar Co.

Sugar is a poison and its sale should be as tightly regulated as cigarettes and alcohol, scientists say.

If sugar's consumption is linked to the rise in noncommunicable diseases like diabetes and hypertension, and if its effects on the body mimic those of alcohol, should we regulate it to protect public health?

LONDON: The Dubai Al-Khaleej sugar refinery, typically supplied by raw sugar from top producer Brazil, has recently bought more than 100,000 tons of Indian sugar, general manager Cyrus Raja said on Tuesday.

The Bakery Worker's union now will lobby against the sugar program in Congress, according to a union official, breaking a long tradition of fighting for the program with farmers and American Crystal Sugar Co.