http://www.sugartech.co.za/news/ The latest news on the sugar industry... Covering global trade issues, mergers and acquisitions, crop reports and more en-gb Fri, 03 Feb 2012 07:26:21 +0200 Copyright: (C) 2006 Wayne Jayes http://www.sugartech.co.za/ads/SEL120x60.gif http://www.sugartech.co.za/ 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. http://www.agra-net.com/portal2/home.jsp?template=newsarticle&artid=20017936724&pubid=ag047 Fri, 03 Feb 2012 07:26:21 +0200 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. http://www.visayandailystar.com/2012/February/03/topstory6.htm Fri, 03 Feb 2012 07:26:21 +0200 Australian cane growers say a tax on foods containing high sugar levels isn\'t neccessary. http://www.abc.net.au/rural/news/content/201202/s3422511.htm Fri, 03 Feb 2012 07:26:21 +0200 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. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/nagpur/Neeri-Purti-to-test-industrial-production-of-biofuel-from-algae/articleshow/11734880.cms Fri, 03 Feb 2012 07:26:21 +0200 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 http://www.myfoxtampabay.com/dpp/news/national/foxnews/Sugar-as-a-controlled-substance-What-an-idiotic-idea_44257526 Fri, 03 Feb 2012 07:26:21 +0200 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. http://bismarcktribune.com/news/state-and-regional/american-crystal-union-to-fight-u-s-sugar-program/article_3e15bb88-4e1e-11e1-afc5-001871e3ce6c.html Fri, 03 Feb 2012 07:26:21 +0200 GOVERNMENT has set aside K40 billion for infrastructure development in the Luena Farm Bloc in Kawambwa District, Luapula Province. http://allafrica.com/stories/201202010405.html Thu, 02 Feb 2012 07:52:10 +0200 Michael Gibbon has been appointed chief executive of leading multi-disciplinary consulting, project engineering, construction and operational management group Bosch Holdings. http://allafrica.com/stories/201202010224.html Thu, 02 Feb 2012 07:52:10 +0200 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. http://allafrica.com/stories/201201310247.html Thu, 02 Feb 2012 07:52:10 +0200 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. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/02/01/BA891N1PQS.DTL Thu, 02 Feb 2012 07:52:10 +0200 Sugar is a poison and its sale should be as tightly regulated as cigarettes and alcohol, scientists say. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2094812/Sugar-controlled-like-tobacco-alcohol.html?ITO=1490 Thu, 02 Feb 2012 07:52:10 +0200 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? http://parenting.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/01/should-we-regulate-sugar/ Thu, 02 Feb 2012 07:52:10 +0200 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. http://arabnews.com/economy/article569976.ece Thu, 02 Feb 2012 07:52:10 +0200 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. http://www.grandforksherald.com/event/article/id/228274/group/homepage/ Thu, 02 Feb 2012 07:52:10 +0200 OPERATIONS at West Kenya Sugar Company have normalised after six months of reduced activity following an acute cane shortage that hit the zone last year. http://allafrica.com/stories/201202010021.html Wed, 01 Feb 2012 07:47:14 +0200 The Sugar Regulatory Administration (SRA) on Tuesday downgraded its sugarcane estimate for crop year 2011-2012 to 2.242 million metric tons (MMT) of raw sugar production from the initial estimate of 2.40 MMT. http://ph.news.yahoo.com/sra-cuts-output-estimate-sugar-crop-2011-2012-075408547.html Wed, 01 Feb 2012 07:47:14 +0200 GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) -- The European Union is giving Guyana a $39.5 million grant to boost sugar production and renovate factories in the South American country. http://news.yahoo.com/guyana-awaits-39m-sugar-production-162107113.html Wed, 01 Feb 2012 07:47:14 +0200 A proposed $425 million sugar ethanol plant in north Queensland is set to go ahead after getting council and State Government approval. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-02-01/425m-sugar-ethanol-plant-gets-green-light/3804610? Wed, 01 Feb 2012 07:47:14 +0200 LONDON: The Dubai Al Khaleej sugar refinery, typically supplied by raw sugar from top producer Brazil, has recently bought more than 100,000 tonnes of Indian sugar, general manager Cyrus Raja said on Tuesday. Read more: http://www.dailystar.com.lb/Business/Middle-East/2012/Jan-31/161718-al-khaleej-dubai-refinery-buys-indian-sugar.ashx#ixzz1l6epMjIL (The Daily Star :: Lebanon News :: http://www.dailystar.com.lb) http://www.dailystar.com.lb/Business/Middle-East/2012/Jan-31/161718-al-khaleej-dubai-refinery-buys-indian-sugar.ashx#axzz1l6diCWqw Wed, 01 Feb 2012 07:47:14 +0200 ISLAMABAD: After lifting the almost entire sugarcane stocks, the government has allowed export of 100,000 tons of sugar to improve sugar industry\'s cash flows and ward off a possible glut in the market that may further bring down the retail price. http://www.dawn.com/2012/02/01/ecc-approves-sugar-export-to-ward-off-glut.html Wed, 01 Feb 2012 07:47:14 +0200 MOORHEAD, Minn. -- In an ongoing dispute over health insurance costs and contract provisions designed to protect union worker job security, American Crystal Sugar and union officials remain at odds after a nearly six-month worker lockout. http://www.kare11.com/news/article/959622/396/After-failed-talks-Crystal-Sugar-says-window-is-closing Wed, 01 Feb 2012 07:47:14 +0200 EUCLID, Minn. Paul Rutherford stared over his tilled fields of sugar beets, his gaze focused on hundreds of acres in the midst of harvest. http://www.grandforksherald.com/event/article/id/228125/group/homepage/ Wed, 01 Feb 2012 07:47:14 +0200 Jan. 31 (Bloomberg) -- MK Group d.o.o., a Serbian diversified holding company that focuses on agribusiness, won\'t be able to buy Hellenic Sugar Co. as the acquisition would push its market share in Serbia to 78 percent, the country\'s market regulator said today. http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-01-31/serbian-regulator-bans-mk-group-s-bid-to-buy-hellenic-sugar.html Wed, 01 Feb 2012 07:47:14 +0200 Weighed down by a 24 per cent rise in one-time provisioning towards the differential cane price liability, the K. K. Birla Group-owned, Upper Ganges Sugar and Industries Ltd (UGSIL) posted a net loss of Rs 20 crore for the quarter ended December 31, 2011, against a profit of Rs 4 crore during the corresponding period last year. http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/industry-and-economy/agri-biz/article2847887.ece Wed, 01 Feb 2012 07:47:14 +0200 Nzoia Sugar Company is set to hire a firm to helpprobe six top managers who were recently suspended for fraud at the company\'s nucleus farm. Nzoia managing directorSaul Wasilwa said the police had already submitted files on theirfindings but it was important to have a separate firm to carry out an in depthforensic audit. \"We are not leaving anything to chance because we want tomake sure that all those involved in the syndicate are brought to book,\" hesaid. http://allafrica.com/stories/201201302186.html Tue, 31 Jan 2012 08:44:24 +0200 Controversy over the Sh34 million sugar consignment being destroyed in Mombasa deepened after a Ugandan minister was granted orders stopping the destruction. http://allafrica.com/stories/201201300986.html Tue, 31 Jan 2012 08:44:24 +0200 TAMPA, Fla. (AP) The Republican presidential race waded, at least for one night, into the grainy details of U.S. policy toward sugar http://news.yahoo.com/gop-debate-casts-light-us-sugar-policy-203950046.html Tue, 31 Jan 2012 08:44:24 +0200 Fiji\'s sugar industry which is the backbone of the economy\'s export sector has to survive, says Permanent secretary for sugar Lieutenant Colonel Manasa Vaniqi. http://www.fijilive.com/news/2012/01/31/39749.Fijilive? Tue, 31 Jan 2012 08:44:24 +0200 India has taken a step closer to deregulating its sugar industry with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh constituting a special panel to discuss and examine issues around removing government controls from the sector. http://www.foodnavigator-asia.com/Policy/PM-pushes-India-toward-sugar-deregulation-move Tue, 31 Jan 2012 08:44:24 +0200 Tunisia\'s imports of refined sugar will rise slightly in 2012 to 350,000 tonnes from 300,000 brought in a year ago, the Ministry of Commerce said. http://www.agra-net.com/portal2/home.jsp?template=newsarticle&artid=20017935296&pubid=ag044 Tue, 31 Jan 2012 08:44:24 +0200 Rise in both income and urban population will drive sugar consumption in China and make it the leading importer of sugar by 2020 according to the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) commodities research unit. http://www.agra-net.com/portal2/isj/home.jsp?template=newsarticle&artid=20017934041&pubid=ag043 Tue, 31 Jan 2012 08:44:24 +0200 Two other sugar federations yesterday said they are still studying the proposed Sugar Act of Rep. Alfredo Abelardo Benitez (Neg. Occ, 3rd District), and they have not given up on it. http://www.visayandailystar.com/2012/January/31/topstory3.htm Tue, 31 Jan 2012 08:44:24 +0200 CARE Research expects sugar output in the current sugar season (SS 2011-12) is estimated to be about 26 million MT on account of higher sugar cane production on the back of higher cane acreage. With an opening stock of 5.6 million MT and an estimated annual domestic consumption of 22 million MT, the industry is expected to have a surplus of 9.6 million MT at the end of SS 2011-12. http://www.myiris.com/newsCentre/storyShow.php?fileR=20120130145113200&dir=2012/01/30 Tue, 31 Jan 2012 08:44:24 +0200 Farmers from the Mumias sugar scheme have threatened to demonstrate if an \'outsider\' is chosen to replace Dr Evans Kidero. http://allafrica.com/stories/201201271371.html Mon, 30 Jan 2012 07:33:09 +0200 Maputo Flood waters have receded in Magude, in the southern Mozambican province of Maputo, where the Incomati River burst its banks. However, the situation in the region, where at least four deaths have been reported over the last few days, is still serious. http://allafrica.com/stories/201201270991.html Mon, 30 Jan 2012 07:33:09 +0200 RECENT news that Green Fuel, a pioneering Zimbabwean ethanol processing company, is currently sitting on 8 million litres of ethanol (E10) in their storage facilities due to a slow uptake by the market sounds like irresponsible economic suicide. http://www.newzimbabwe.com/blog/index.php/2012/01/lmambondiani/government-should-support-ethanol-production/ Mon, 30 Jan 2012 07:33:09 +0200 The Sugar Barons by Matthew Parker is a comprehensive account of the families who dominated sugar cultivation in the West Indies, with the emphasis on Barbados and Jamaica. Trinidad only merits a passing mention, a sentence here and there because the great days of sugar were already in decline when cane was king in this country. http://www.newsday.co.tt/features/0,154564.html? Mon, 30 Jan 2012 07:33:09 +0200 THE sugar industry is the worst-hit in last week\'s flood. Of the estimated damage bill of $32,871,592 posted so far, the sugar industry is reported to have suffered damage of up to $18m. http://www.fijitimes.com/story.aspx?id=192079 Mon, 30 Jan 2012 07:33:09 +0200 Moorhead, Minn.-based American Crystal Sugar gave $1.16 million to 177 House and Senate candidates in 45 states in 2011. PACs like American Crystal Sugar are allowed to give up to $10,000 per election cycle to individual candidates. The Star Tribune compiled the data below from records filed with the Federal Election Commission. The table may be sorted by recipient name, party, state and amount received. Just click in one of the columns or search for a single name, location or amount in the search field. http://www.startribune.com/business/133160343.html? Mon, 30 Jan 2012 07:33:09 +0200 American Crystal Sugar\'s political action committee draws virtually all of its funding from Minnesota and North Dakota sugar beet farmers who are members of the Moorhead, Minn.-based cooperative. In 2011, 1,035 donors gave the PAC $1.28 million. Individuals may donate up to the $5,000 per election cycle to the political action committee. The Star Tribune compiled the table below from records American Crystal Sugar filed with the Federal Election Commission. The table may be sorted by individual names, cities, states and amount donated. Just click on the top the columns to sort the data or search for a single name, location or amount in the search field. http://www.startribune.com/business/133159083.html? Mon, 30 Jan 2012 07:33:09 +0200 Idaho-based Amalgamated Sugar Company has roughly doubled its distribution space to 154,330 square feet at the Parkway Distribution Center in Grand Prairie. http://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/news/2012/01/27/idaho-based-sugar-company-expands-in.html? Mon, 30 Jan 2012 07:33:09 +0200 A new centre of excellence in East Anglia will help to drive a major scientific effort to increase yields of this vital crop, said Prof Maurice Moloney, who is director of Rothamsted Research. http://www.eadt.co.uk/business/farming-news/sugar_beet_could_become_one_of_the_country_s_most_important_food_and_energy_crops_conference_told_1_1190265? Mon, 30 Jan 2012 07:33:09 +0200 Although many would think that only tropical sugar cane produces granulated sugar, another important source of sucrose is the sugar beet. In 2006, accounting only for domestic sugar crops grown in the United States, sugar beets accounted for almost 59% of sugar production. The rest was sugar cane, which only grows in tropical or sub-tropical conditions. http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/plants/news-sugar-beet-unsung-rival-sugar-cane? Mon, 30 Jan 2012 07:33:09 +0200 The UK beet sugar industry just needs a little more time to adjust to compete with continental neighbours, he told sugar farmers. http://www.edp24.co.uk/business/farming-news/farm_minister_must_back_east_anglia_s_sugar_industry_1_1190120? Mon, 30 Jan 2012 07:33:09 +0200 While the corn industry waits on the FDA to decide whether or not it can have high fructose corn sugar (HFCS) relabeled with the marketing-friendly \"corn sugar\" label, it continues to push home its assertion that the human body reacts the same, whether the sweetener is HFCS or table sugar. But a new study claims that just isn\'t the case. http://consumerist.com/2012/01/study-says-sugar-hfcs-not-as-identical-as-some-would-have-you-believe.html? Mon, 30 Jan 2012 07:33:09 +0200 Sugar worth millions of shillings belonging to a Ugandan minister was yesterday destroyed at the Customs warehouse in Mombasa in controversial circumstances. While the Sh34 million consignment whose value has since shot to Sh100 million, was being destroyed under the watchful eyes of several officials, the sugar owners, agents of the Ugandan Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs Kahinda Otafiire, claimed the officials were in contempt of court. http://allafrica.com/stories/201201261447.html Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:02:19 +0200 Sugar worth millions of shillings belonging to Maj. Gen Kahinda Otafiire, Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs, has been destroyed at the Customs warehouse in Mombasa, under controversial circumstances. http://allafrica.com/stories/201201260231.html Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:02:19 +0200 Maputo The Mozambican authorities are forcibly moving people away from flood risk areas along the Limpopo valley, in the southern province of Gaza. http://allafrica.com/stories/201201260953.html Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:02:19 +0200 PUNE: Maharashtra government has officially revised downward the sugar production estimate of the state by five lakh tonnes from 9.3 million tonnes to 8.8 million tonnes, confirmed commissioner of sugar, Maharashtra, Mr Vijay Singhal. http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/economy/agriculture/maharashtra-confirms-fall-in-sugar-prod-estimate/articleshow/11647665.cms? Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:02:19 +0200 BELLE GLADE, Fla., Jan. 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Fritz C. (Sonny) Stein, III was elected to the Board of Directors of Sugar Cane Growers Cooperative at its January 19, 2012 Annual Membership meeting filling the expired term of Walter A. (Drew) Duda who had served on the Board since 1999. Duda was thanked for his dedicated years of service by the membership. http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/stein-appointed-to-sugar-cane-growers-cooperative-board-138152904.html? Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:02:19 +0200 Tereos, unveiling record core earnings, joined the attack on proposals to shake-up Europe\'s sugar regime despite being viewed as one of the groups best positioned for the reforms. http://www.agrimoney.com/news/thriving-tereos-takes-aim-at-european-sugar-plans--4087.html? Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:02:19 +0200 The Beet Sugar Manufacturing Industry report from Supplier Relations US, LLC contains the most recent data and analysis on the industry\'s key financial data, cost and pricing, competitive landscape, industry structure. Also updated are the latest trade, shipment, and inventory data available through January 2012. This 2011 year-end update provides the data necessary to make informed forecasts and business planning after the recent seasonal changes in output. http://www.sunherald.com/2012/01/26/3712757/research-and-markets-beet-sugar.html Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:02:19 +0200 The body may absorb more fructose from high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) than it does from sucrose, according to a new study published in the journal Metabolism. http://www.foodnavigator-usa.com/Science/HFCS-and-sugar-Can-your-body-tell-the-difference-after-all Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:02:19 +0200 LARKS TOWN, Trelawny JUST under 150 persons are expected to gain employment at the Long Pond Sugar factory in Trelawny, when the 2011/2012 crop begins at the plant early next month. http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/westernnews/Long-Pond-reopening-to-boost-employment-in-Trelawny-_10637081 Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:02:19 +0200 With growing concern that excessive levels of fructose may pose a great health risk - causing high blood pressure, kidney disease and diabetes - researchers at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, along with their colleagues at the University of Florida, set out to see if two common sweeteners in western diets differ in their effects on the body in the first few hours after ingestion. The study, recently published in the journal Metabolism, took a closer look at high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) and table sugar (sucrose) and was led by Dr MyPhuong Le (University of Colorado) and Dr Julie Johnson (University of Florida). http://www.agra-net.com/portal2/isj/home.jsp?template=newsarticle&artid=20017934067&pubid=ag043 Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:02:19 +0200 Significant expansion in sugar sales revenues has boosted Sdzucker\'s operating profit for the third quarter (1 March 2011 to 30 November 2011). Of the group operating profit for Q3 of 586 million, the contribution from the sugar division was 389 million, i.e. over 66%. http://www.agra-net.com/portal2/isj/home.jsp?template=newsarticle&artid=20017933637&pubid=ag043 Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:02:19 +0200 At least nine new ethanol plants, estimated to cost some P15 billion (U$345 million) are expected to built over the next two years, acknowledged Mario Marasigan, Director of the Department of Energy\'s (DoE) Energy Utilization and Management, at the First Philippine International BioEnergy Conference in early January. These plants, costing around P1.6 billion to P2 billion each, will have a combined capacity of around 300 million litres. http://www.agra-net.com/portal2/isj/home.jsp?template=newsarticle&artid=20017933281&pubid=ag043 Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:02:19 +0200 Karuturi Agro Products, a subsidiary of Karuturi Overseas Limited, is planning a major cane sugar production project in Ethiopia\'s Gambella Regional state with joint venture partners. http://www.agra-net.com/portal2/isj/home.jsp?template=newsarticle&artid=20017933277&pubid=ag043 Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:02:19 +0200 PETERBOROUGH, England (Reuters) - UK growers said they are on course to meet ambitious industry targets to double annual growth in sugar beet yields to 4 percent for 2012 to 2015 as they prepare to become more competitive by the time EU sugar quotas end. http://uk.news.yahoo.com/track-double-sugar-yield-growth-uk-growers-134145885.html Thu, 26 Jan 2012 07:26:28 +0200 As average sugar levels hold steady at more than 18.5pc, the Cantley beet sugar factory, which was established in 1912, is producing record volumes of sugar, while the Bury St Edmunds factory is also performing well. Sugar beet grower Robert Hambidge recalled that exactly a year ago throughput at British Sugar\'s four factories virtually collapsed as attempts were made to process severely frost-damaged beet. http://www.eadt.co.uk/business/farming-news/british_sugar_factory_is_breaking_records_for_crystal_production_at_the_start_of_its_centenary_year_1_1186775? Thu, 26 Jan 2012 07:26:28 +0200 2012 WILL be a watershed year for Australia\'s sugar industry as reforms to its research and development (R&D) model create a single and sustainable sugar research organisation with a larger research funding pool, according to sugar industry body Canegrowers. http://nqr.farmonline.com.au/news/state/sugar/general/2012-marks-year-of-sugar-research-reform/2430967.aspx?src=rss Thu, 26 Jan 2012 07:26:28 +0200 Global sugar prices could rise following a shortage in Mexican production unless the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) allows additional imports, according to the Jenkins Sugar Group. http://www.confectionerynews.com/Markets/Mexican-sugar-shortage-could-lead-to-price-hike-unless-USDA-acts-analyst Thu, 26 Jan 2012 07:26:28 +0200 World sugar prices have been range-bound in the last three months or so in the wake of an estimated 8 million tonnes surplus of production over consumption for 2011-12. http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/markets/commodities/article2832020.ece? Thu, 26 Jan 2012 07:26:28 +0200 EU member states have crossed swords once again on Commission proposals to phase out the system of sugar production and milk quotas at the end of September 2015 at an Agriculture Council meeting on January 23. http://www.agra-net.com/portal2/home.jsp?template=newsarticle&artid=20017934304&pubid=ag044 Thu, 26 Jan 2012 07:26:28 +0200 Sugar is presently a major feedstock source for the renewable chemicals industry - not only in the EU but globally - and it is applied in various fields of the sector. Across the EU, sugar and its by-products are widely used in the fermentation industry to produce organic acids like citric acid or the amino acids lysine and monosodium glutamate as well as pharmaceuticals and yeast products. http://www.agra-net.com/portal2/home.jsp?template=newsarticle&artid=20017934272&pubid=ag134 Thu, 26 Jan 2012 07:26:28 +0200 PETALING JAYA: CIMB Research expects the recent sugar subsidy hike to have a negative impact on Felda\'s sugar unit, MSM Malaysia Holdings Bhd. http://biz.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2012/1/26/business/10538828&sec=business Thu, 26 Jan 2012 07:26:28 +0200 HAVANA TIMES, Jan 25 The first secretary of the Communist Party in Guantanamo province, Luis Torres Iribar, today criticized the sugar industry in that territory for production shortfalls, the Granma newspaper reported. http://www.havanatimes.org/?p=60493 Thu, 26 Jan 2012 07:26:28 +0200 A MULTI-billion deal entered between the government and Kilombero Sugar Company (Illovo), for sugarcane production in Luipa farms in Kilombero District, Morogoro Region, has flopped after the investor pulled out due to endless land conflicts. http://allafrica.com/stories/201201240459.html Wed, 25 Jan 2012 08:35:43 +0200 NEWS that a multi-billion sugarcane production project in Kilombero has flopped due to inefficiency on the part of individuals within the government to resolve a simple land dispute has been received with sadness. http://allafrica.com/stories/201201240301.html Wed, 25 Jan 2012 08:35:43 +0200 Over 20 people are admitted to St Mary\'s Hospital after they were attacked and injured by a gang in Mumias district. http://allafrica.com/stories/201201240134.html Wed, 25 Jan 2012 08:35:43 +0200 ALGIERS (Reuters) - Algerian firm Cevital, the biggest sugar refiner in North Africa, expects to more than double sugar exports this year to 1 million tonnes after fixing technical problems at its main transport hub, the owner and chief executive said. http://news.yahoo.com/algerias-cevital-sees-2012-sugar-exports-160603082.html Wed, 25 Jan 2012 08:35:43 +0200 One of the joys of a curator\'s job is finding things and telling their stories. We found two partial sets of Dutch Sugar Color Standards in the Physical Sciences Collection. \"Found\" is perhaps not the operative word as these jars were never lost. But we had not appreciated their rarity or historical significance. http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/01/dutch-color-standards-how-the-us-taxed-18th-century-sugar/251795/ Wed, 25 Jan 2012 08:35:43 +0200 Hours after Newt Gingrich took the sugar beet industry to the woodshed there is chatter in small town cafes where sugar beet farmers are today a little proud and a little miffed. http://www.wday.com/event/article/id/58050/ Wed, 25 Jan 2012 08:35:43 +0200 TAMPA, Fla. (AP) -- The Republican presidential race waded, at least for one night, into the grainy details of U.S. policy toward sugar. http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_FLORIDA_SUGAR_POLITICS?SECTION=HOME&SITE=AP&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT Wed, 25 Jan 2012 08:35:43 +0200 A Japanese group is arriving in Bacolod City on February 3 to introduce waysto improve the capacity of Negros sugar mills to produce much neededpower for the province, Metro Bacolod Chamber of Commerce and Industry president Frank Carbon said yesterday. http://www.visayandailystar.com/2012/January/25/topstory4.htm Wed, 25 Jan 2012 08:35:43 +0200 Sugar is a stimulant and increases sympathetic arousal. As a stimulant, a rise in blood sugar level immediately after eating sugar gives us a feeling of increase energy and leads to heightened arousal by increase in sympathetic activity. http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/01/sugar-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-3/? Wed, 25 Jan 2012 08:35:43 +0200 A bus stop that catches the attention of every keen observer is one situated just next to the Brasseries du Cameroon brewery along the old Airport Road in the Mvan neighbourhood. In the early hours of the morning, wholesalers of sugar cane arrive with several bundles of fresh sugar cane grown some 25 km from Yaounde on the highway to the town of Mbalmayo. http://allafrica.com/stories/201201231999.html Tue, 24 Jan 2012 07:20:39 +0200 ZAMBIA Sugar Plc last year paid out K210 billion to small-scale outgrowers in Mazabuka District who account for almost 40 per cent of the raw materials the company uses to produce the commodity. http://allafrica.com/stories/201201231806.html Tue, 24 Jan 2012 07:20:39 +0200 There are several very good reasons why Zimbabwean motorists should use an ethanol-petrol blend in their petrol engines. http://allafrica.com/stories/201201200286.html Tue, 24 Jan 2012 07:20:39 +0200 Kenya\'s sugar production fell nearly 38% to 26,060 tonnes, white value, in August 2011 from 41,911 in the same month last year reflecting the impact of a cane shortage, Kenya Sugar Board data showed. http://www.agra-net.com/portal2/home.jsp?template=newsarticle&artid=20017933587&pubid=ag044 Tue, 24 Jan 2012 07:20:39 +0200 ALGIERS (Reuters) - Algerian firm Cevital, the biggest sugar refiner in North Africa, expects to more than double sugar exports this year to 1 million tonnes after fixing technical problems at its main transport hub, the owner and chief executive said. http://news.yahoo.com/algerias-cevital-sees-2012-sugar-exports-1-mln-152358030.html Tue, 24 Jan 2012 07:20:39 +0200 Exceptional sales growth for sugar will fuel expansion at Associated British Foods (ABF), say food industry analysts, even if Q1 continued to highlight struggles for the food ingredients side of the business. http://www.foodnavigator.com/Financial-Industry/Sugar-keeps-things-sweet-for-ABF?utm_source=RSS_text_news&utm_medium=RSS%252Bfeed&utm_campaign=RSS%252BText%252BNews Tue, 24 Jan 2012 07:20:39 +0200 NEW DELHI: The Prime Minister\'s Economic Advisory Council has drawn up a comprehensive road map for sugar decontrol, a blue print that the prime minister\'s office is expected to push through after the state elections. http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/economy/agriculture/millers-say-action-needed-as-pmeac-chairman-c-rangarajan-talks-sugar-decontrol/articleshow/11610881.cms? Tue, 24 Jan 2012 07:20:39 +0200 Berhampur (Odisha), Jan 23 (PTI) A woman and two children were killed when a storage tank exploded at a cooperative sugar mill at Aska in Odisha\'s Ganjam district, police said today. In the explosion last night at the Aska Cooperative Sugar Industries Ltd, three people were killed when thick spillage from the 2,000 tonne capacity molasses tank gushed into their nearby staff quarters. Besides the woman, her ten year-old grandson and an eight year-old boy were killed. Molasses, a left-over of the sugar industry, is the main raw material for preparing rectified spirit and is in high demand for manufacturing country liquor. Angry locals protested and blocked the road following which traffic movement on Aska-Bhubaneswar and Aska-Dasapalla roads was disrupted. The mill, one of the oldest cooperative sugar mills in the state, was closed by the authorities for the day. Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, who is campaigning at Aska, Buguda and his assembly constituency Hinjili for the ensuing panchayat elections in the state, cancelled his visit in view of tension in the area following the incident. Ganjam district collector Kishan Kumar said the Chief Minister has announced an ex-gratia of Rs two lakh to the next of kin of the victims. PTI COR SKN KK HMI http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/wire-news/woman-two-children-killedsugar-factory-blast_655698.html? Tue, 24 Jan 2012 07:20:39 +0200 Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik announced an ex-gratia of Rs 2 lakh each to the kin of three persons who were killed on Sunday night when the molasses of Aska Sugar Industries entered into two staff quarters. http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/ex-gratia-for-sugar-factory-victims/462628/? Tue, 24 Jan 2012 07:20:39 +0200 France\'s Competition Authority has cleared a merger which will create the country\'s second-largest sugar company. http://www.globalcompetitionreview.com/rss/news/article/31240/? Tue, 24 Jan 2012 07:20:39 +0200 Significant expansion in sugar sales revenues has boosted Sdzucker\'s operating profit for the third quarter of its 2011/12 financial year. http://www.agra-net.com/portal2/home.jsp?template=newsarticle&artid=20017933720&pubid=ag002 Tue, 24 Jan 2012 07:20:39 +0200 SUGAR Regulatory Administrator Ma. Regina Bautista-Martin was invited to chair the prestigious 21st International Sugar Organization (ISO) Seminar on November 27 to 28 in London. http://www.sunstar.com.ph/bacolod/local-news/2012/01/24/sra-chief-asked-head-world-sugar-confab-202258 Tue, 24 Jan 2012 07:20:39 +0200 The government has lifted the tax waiver on imported sugar, six months after it was instituted at the height of the sugar crisis in August last year. http://allafrica.com/stories/201201200004.html Fri, 20 Jan 2012 07:25:59 +0200 China is likely to become the world\'s largest sugar importer by 2020 as consumption grows along with incomes, said Commonwealth Bank of Australia in a report on Wednesday. http://www.cnbc.com/id/46049048 Fri, 20 Jan 2012 07:25:59 +0200 The Directors of Australia\'s only ASX-listed sugar miller, MSF Sugar (formerly Maryborough Sugar Factory Limited), have accepted a A$4.45 per share takeover offer by Thai sugar company Mitr Phol. http://www.ausfoodnews.com.au/2012/01/19/msf-sugar-directors-accept-mitr-phol-offer.html Fri, 20 Jan 2012 07:25:59 +0200 MACQUARIE Commodities Research has forecast a global sugar surplus of 7.9m tonnes for 2011/12. http://www.agra-net.com/portal2/home.jsp?template=newsarticle&artid=20017933135&pubid=ag047 Fri, 20 Jan 2012 07:25:59 +0200 Exceptional sales growth for sugar will fuel expansion at Associated British Foods (ABF), say food industry analysts, even if Q1 continued to highlight struggles for the food ingredients side of the business. http://www.foodnavigator.com/Financial-Industry/Sugar-keeps-things-sweet-for-ABF?utm_source=copyright&utm_medium=OnSite&utm_campaign=copyright Fri, 20 Jan 2012 07:25:59 +0200 Ingredients firm Sdzucker has seen a sharp increase in its operating profit for the third quarter (Q3) propelled by gains in its sugar segment. http://www.bakeryandsnacks.com/Financial/Sugar-segment-helps-Suedzucker-s-profits-soar?utm_source=RSS_text_news&utm_medium=RSS%2Bfeed&utm_campaign=RSS%2BText%2BNews Fri, 20 Jan 2012 07:25:59 +0200 AUSTRALIAN sugar industry research body BSES has revealed up to half of its Bundaberg staff will be made redundant in coming months as part of a restructure of research and development organisations. http://www.frasercoastchronicle.com.au/story/2012/01/20/bses-announces-job-cuts-to-bundy-station/ Fri, 20 Jan 2012 07:25:59 +0200 Thai food giant Mitr Phol Sugar Corporation is a step closer to taking ownership of Australian sugar mill Maryborough Sugar Factory. http://www.abc.net.au/rural/news/content/201201/s3411307.htm? Thu, 19 Jan 2012 07:39:27 +0200 The recent investigation done by journalists of Plaza Publica in Guatemala has uncovered how government authorities, although legally having to prevent child labor, allow children under 14 years of age to work in their cane fields, which is a physically demanding and dangerous work. http://globalvoicesonline.org/2012/01/18/guatemala-child-labor-in-the-sugar-cane-fields/ Thu, 19 Jan 2012 07:39:27 +0200 Traders are betting that the biggest sugar glut since 2007 will shrink in the next harvest, reversing expectations from six months ago and ending the largest decline in prices in a decade. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-01-18/sugar-traders-wager-that-biggest-glut-in-five-years-is-ending-commodities.html Thu, 19 Jan 2012 07:39:27 +0200 L\'Association of Retired Workers of the Sugar Industry rclame l\'amendement de la Sugar Industry Pension Fund Act. Elle exige une augmentation de la pension paye aux 6 400 retraits de ce secteur et la garantie du paiement d\'un boni de fin d\'anne. http://www.lexpress.mu/story/33641-industrie-sucriere-les-retraites-manifesteront-devant-le-bureau-du-premier-ministre.html Thu, 19 Jan 2012 07:39:27 +0200 Staff who work for the sugar industry\'s cane breeding and research organisation are being offered redundancies. http://www.abc.net.au/rural/news/content/201201/s3410951.htm Thu, 19 Jan 2012 07:39:27 +0200 The Brazilian Development Bank announced last week a programme to finance low cost loans for farmers of sugarcane and producers of ethanol. The tropical country is seeking to boost biofuel production in the wake of ethanol tariffs and subsidies expiring in the US, another leading producer. http://ictsd.org/i/news/bridgesweekly/123208/ Thu, 19 Jan 2012 07:39:27 +0200 Sugarcane growers have opposed plan by the ministry of agriculture to have them contracted to particular millers. http://allafrica.com/stories/201201160836.html Wed, 18 Jan 2012 07:26:15 +0200 Northern Ireland artist Brendan Jamison has claimed a special niche in the UK corridors of power. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-16562787 Wed, 18 Jan 2012 07:26:15 +0200 SUNNYVALE, Calif., Jan. 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB) announced today that it will supply information management solutions that can increase efficiencies and productivity for U.S. Sugar Corporation, one of the nation\'s largest fully-integrated producers of sugar cane and refined sugar. http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/trimble-partners-with-us-sugar-for-agriculture-solutions-137470123.html? Wed, 18 Jan 2012 07:26:15 +0200 Mbabane The 146-kilometre railway line to be established between South Africa and Swaziland will help reduce the cost of doing business between the two countries. http://allafrica.com/stories/201201171117.html Wed, 18 Jan 2012 07:26:15 +0200 Rapidly falling prices have forced cooperative sugar factories in Maharashtra to opt for distress sale to mobilise funds to fulfil the mandatory requirement of payment to cane growers in the stipulated 15 days. The sugar is being sold at Rs 2,620 a quintal, Rs 400 a quintal lower than the price during the announcement of export of one million tonnes under the Open General Licence. http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/maharashtra-sugar-cooperatives-go-for-distress-sale/461517/ Tue, 17 Jan 2012 09:18:52 +0200 MUMBAI, JAN. 16: Sugar prices ruled steady across the country with marginal change on Monday despite need-based demand and continuous selling by mills. http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/markets/commodities/article2805590.ece?homepage=true&ref=wl_home Tue, 17 Jan 2012 09:18:52 +0200 MOORHEAD, Minn. (AP) American Crystal Sugar Co. on Monday rejected a proposal to end the cooperative\'s six-month lockout of its factory workers in three states, calling it a \"publicity stunt\" by the leadership of the union that represents them. http://news.yahoo.com/american-crystal-calls-union-offer-stunt-005336115.html Tue, 17 Jan 2012 09:18:52 +0200 Patna, Jan. 16: The five power surplus sugar factories in the state would miss out on around Rs 7 crore encouragement money from the Centre this financial year for the alleged failure of the state government to issue them renewable energy certificate. http://www.telegraphindia.com/1120117/jsp/bihar/story_15009746.jsp? Tue, 17 Jan 2012 09:18:52 +0200 The Fiji Sugar Corporation vision for this year is to ensure that all stakeholders involved in the sugar industry will work together for the benefit of the sugar industry. http://www.radiofiji.com.fj/fullstory.php?id=42938 Tue, 17 Jan 2012 09:18:52 +0200 MOORHEAD - Workers locked out by American Crystal Sugar since Aug. 1 are disappointed the company rejected a formal proposal to end the labor-management dispute, union leaders said. At the same time, the company released a quarterly report showing the lockout has significantly lowered profits. http://www.workdayminnesota.org/index.php?news_6_5103 Tue, 17 Jan 2012 09:18:52 +0200 Manila, Philippines The country is optimistic on the prospects of the ethanol industry for the national economy, with the looming increase in the mandated ethanol blend from 5 percent to 10 percent in February, 2012. http://www.tempo.com.ph/2012/bright-prospects-for-ethanol-industry/#.TxUflaUjFWQ Tue, 17 Jan 2012 09:18:52 +0200 Sourabh Agarwal, chief executive, India Stevia Association, New Delhi, and CMD, Stevia Biotech, in a conversation with Manjushree Naik talks about FSSAI scientific panel\'s recent recommendation for approval of stevia and the current scenario http://www.fnbnews.com/article/detnews.asp?articleid=31198&sectionid=11 Tue, 17 Jan 2012 09:18:52 +0200 London The German airline Lufthansa on Thursday flew the last flight of a six month trial using biofuel grown in Mozambique. http://allafrica.com/stories/201201130343.html Mon, 16 Jan 2012 08:17:03 +0200 Favourable market trends and successful business strategies have driven strong profits in Agrana\'s sugar and starch segments, creating 20.2% growth for the first three quarters of 2011|12, the CEO said. http://www.foodnavigator.com/Financial-Industry/Strong-Q1-Q3-for-Agrana-driven-by-sugar-and-starch-segments Mon, 16 Jan 2012 08:17:03 +0200 1890 Henry Oxnard and others open a beet sugar factory in Grand Island, Neb. The next year, Oxnard builds factories in Norfolk, Neb., and Chino, Calif. http://www.inforum.com/event/article/id/347381/ Mon, 16 Jan 2012 08:17:03 +0200 The incessant saga regarding official sugar procurement continues. http://www.brecorder.com/home/br-research/single/421/23:23/2170:sugar-millers-carrying-the-pains-of-growers/?date=2011-12-19 Mon, 16 Jan 2012 08:17:03 +0200 Local sugar manufacturers have said they are stuck with the commodity as a result of tax free imports that the government authorised to enter the country at the height of the sugar crisis early last year. http://www.monitor.co.ug/Business/Commodities/-/688610/1306280/-/dfdm8c/-/index.html? Mon, 16 Jan 2012 08:17:03 +0200 Sumbe Cond Commune, in the central Kwanza-Sul Province, will have as from this year a sugar production factory, worth over 82.0 million dollars, ANGOP has learnt. http://allafrica.com/stories/201201130613.html? Mon, 16 Jan 2012 08:17:03 +0200 MOORHEAD - As the lockout of 1,300 union workers at American Crystal Sugar Co. stretches into a sixth month, a question is getting asked: http://www.inforum.com/event/article/id/347380/ Mon, 16 Jan 2012 08:17:03 +0200 Cosan (CZZ) stands as one of the largest sugar producers in one of the largest sugar-producing regions of the world. Cosan also thrives as one of the largest ethanol producers in a country that has geared about 50% of its entire sugar crop towards such energy production. Additionally, Cosan reigns as one of the largest sugarcane crushers in this very important crop. http://seekingalpha.com/article/319719-one-reason-to-invest-in-cosan-sugar-s-new-markets Mon, 16 Jan 2012 08:17:03 +0200 Sugarcane growers have opposed plan by the ministry of agriculture to have them contracted to particular millers. Kenya sugar cane growers association KESGA and a section of millers termed the move outdated and will only oppress the industry with miller\'s oppression to farmers becoming a norm. http://www.the-star.co.ke/business/local/58070-sugar-farmers-oppose-move-to-contract-them-to-specific-factories Mon, 16 Jan 2012 08:17:03 +0200 Sugar plays a major part in East Anglia\'s agricultural life. But why did the industry take root in Norfolk? Agricultural editor Michael Pollitt traces its origins. http://www.edp24.co.uk/business/insight/the_year_the_sugar_industry_arrived_in_norfolk_1_1177534 Mon, 16 Jan 2012 08:17:03 +0200 Mumias Sugar lost close to 40,000 tonnes of sugar cane to poachers last year, the sugar miller has said. http://allafrica.com/stories/201201110061.html Thu, 12 Jan 2012 08:39:30 +0200 Imperial Sugar\'s share price slumped to a 52-week low on Wednesday, after it reported a wider net loss in the fourth quarter and missed analyst expectations by $1.84. http://www.foodnavigator-usa.com/Business/Imperial-Sugar-loss-widens-shares-fall-to-year-low?utm_source=RSS_text_news&utm_medium=RSS%2Bfeed&utm_campaign=RSS%2BText%2BNews Thu, 12 Jan 2012 08:39:30 +0200 CHINA is considering a plan to stockpile up to 2m tonnes of white sugar this year as part of efforts to support sagging domestic prices and assist farmers, industry sources said on Wednesday. http://www.agra-net.com/portal2/home.jsp?template=newsarticle&artid=20017931000&pubid=ag047 Thu, 12 Jan 2012 08:39:30 +0200 Australia\'s sugarcane output will rise 10% to 31.0 mln tonnes in 2012/13 from 28.2 mln this season, fueling a 13% rise in raw sugar production to 4.3 mln tonnes from 3.8 mln, the Australian and New Zealand Banking Group said. This will generate a 19% jump in exports to 3.1 mln tonnes from an estimated 2.6 mln, it added. http://www.agra-net.com/portal2/home.jsp?template=newsarticle&artid=20017930924&pubid=ag044 Thu, 12 Jan 2012 08:39:30 +0200 Sugar production in India\'s top producer Maharashtra may reach only 8.7-8.8 mln tonnes, white value, in 2011/12 from 9.1 mln last year as less rainfall in the later part of the four- month monsoon season is expected to reduce cane yields by 10 to 15 tonnes per ha, local press reports said. http://www.agra-net.com/portal2/home.jsp?template=newsarticle&artid=20017930926&pubid=ag044 Thu, 12 Jan 2012 08:39:30 +0200 Brazil\'s state development bank has announced billions of dollars in incentives to boost the country\'s sugar ethanol industry, just days after the U.S. scrapped import tariffs on foreign producers of the biofuel. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/incoming/brazil-gives-big-sweetener-for-sugar-ethanol-industry/article2299286/?utm_medium=Feeds%3A%20RSS%2FAtom&utm_source=Home&utm_content=2299286 Thu, 12 Jan 2012 08:39:30 +0200 Khartoum - The Minister of Industry Abdul-Wahab Osman received Monday a delegation of Turkish businessmen in the presence of the Economic Attach of Sudan in Istanbul Mohamed Al-Fatih Abu-Bakr. http://news.sudanvisiondaily.com/details.html?rsnpid=204762 Thu, 12 Jan 2012 08:39:30 +0200 THE Mpulungu Harbour Authority has with immediate effect reduced port charges on all consignments being handled at the port destined for the Great Lakes Region (GLR) to make them more competitive and improve on the flow of traffic. http://allafrica.com/stories/201201101011.html Tue, 10 Jan 2012 20:09:31 +0200 Johannesburg The multibillion dollar beverage company owns a concentrate-manufacturing plant in Swaziland, an impoverished kingdom ruled by Africa\'s last absolute monarch, Mswati III. http://allafrica.com/stories/201201100566.html Tue, 10 Jan 2012 20:09:31 +0200 MUMBAI, JAN. 9: Sugar prices ruled slightly firm due to limited selling by mills on Monday. On the Vashi wholesale market, spot prices increased by Rs 5 a quintal for S-grade, while M-grade declined by Rs 4 for fine quality. Fair quality sugar ruled unchanged. http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/markets/commodities/article2788188.ece?homepage=true&ref=wl_home Tue, 10 Jan 2012 20:09:31 +0200 Mumias Sugar lost close to 40,000 tonnes of sugar cane to poachers last year, the sugar miller has said. http://www.nation.co.ke/business/news/Sugar+firm+loses+cane+to+poachers/-/1006/1303184/-/7kdh1pz/-/index.html? Tue, 10 Jan 2012 20:09:31 +0200 Cargill suffered an 88% slump in earnings to their lowest in at least seven years, hurt by volatile commodity markets and, in particular, by a weak result in sugar, in which the group replaced its head trader last month. http://www.agrimoney.com/news/cargill-earnings-slump-hurt-by-sour-sugar-result--4028.html? Tue, 10 Jan 2012 20:09:31 +0200 Sudan\'s Kenana Sugar Co. said it expects to produce 55 mln litres of ethanol at its White Nile Sugar Plant in 2011/12. http://www.agra-net.com/portal2/home.jsp?template=newsarticle&artid=20017930723&pubid=ag072 Tue, 10 Jan 2012 20:09:31 +0200 Chemical giant BASF SE is investing $30 mln in US start-up Renmatix. Renmatix claims it can use hard wood to produce mass quantities of C5 and C6 sugars, which can in turn be used to produce chemicals such as acrylic acid, a building block for plastics. http://www.agra-net.com/portal2/home.jsp?template=newsarticle&artid=20017930657&pubid=ag134 Tue, 10 Jan 2012 20:09:31 +0200 South Africa\'s 2011/12 sugar output is estimated at only 1.82 mln tonnes as the South African Sugar Association (SASA) has again cut its forecast from a previous projection of 1.855 mln issued in early November. http://www.agra-net.com/portal2/home.jsp?template=newsarticle&artid=20017930541&pubid=ag044 Tue, 10 Jan 2012 20:09:31 +0200 MARYBOROUGH could become home to a bio-power or ethanol plant if the buy-out of MSF Sugar goes ahead. http://www.news-mail.com.au/story/2012/01/10/biofuel-dream-chance-sugar/ Tue, 10 Jan 2012 20:09:31 +0200 PUNE: Sugar factories in the state have urged the Union government to revise the price of ethanol from Rs 27 per litre to Rs 35 due to the rise in production cost. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/Sugar-factories-demand-35-per-litre-for-ethanol/articleshow/11380897.cms Thu, 05 Jan 2012 22:15:12 +0200 Mitr Phol Group targets revenue of Bt100 billion within three years, driven by sugar-related businesses such as ethanol and the biomass power plants it is investing in here and in China, Laos, and possibly Australia. http://www.nationmultimedia.com/business/Biomass-power-to-help-push-Mitr-Phol-revenue-to-Bt-30173238.html Thu, 05 Jan 2012 22:15:12 +0200 Controversy surrounds the sugar consignment that was stolen last month in Athi River and part of it recovered in Eastleigh, Nairobi. http://allafrica.com/stories/201201050173.html Thu, 05 Jan 2012 22:15:12 +0200 Profel, the European fruit processing company group, has raised concerns about the high prices of sugar within the EU market in the 2010/11 marketing year and the impact these costs are having on their businesses. http://www.agra-net.com/portal2/home.jsp?template=newsarticle&artid=20017927301&pubid=ag002 Wed, 21 Dec 2011 11:01:50 +0200 MONITOR TOWNSHIP Michigan Sugar Co. growers have approved a multiyear plan to invest more than $13 million in the cooperative\'s flagship processing plant in Monitor Township. http://www.mlive.com/business/mid-michigan/index.ssf/2011/12/michigan_sugar_to_invest_more.html? Wed, 21 Dec 2011 11:01:50 +0200 IMPORT licences into the EU for 36,000 tonnes of raw sugar cane for refining were approved by member states last week with a reduced custom duty of 263.50 ($343) per tonne. http://www.agra-net.com/portal2/home.jsp?template=newsarticle&artid=20017927098&pubid=ag047 Wed, 21 Dec 2011 11:01:50 +0200 MPERIAL Sugar has dropped out of a three-way refining venture in Louisiana, another sign of the great lengths it is going to in order to ensure its viability. http://www.agra-net.com/portal2/home.jsp?template=newsarticle&artid=20017927092&pubid=ag047 Wed, 21 Dec 2011 11:01:50 +0200 Brazil has rapidly become the world\'s biggest producer of ethanol an alternative to petroleum-based fuel from sugar cane. The greenhouse-gas emissions created during sugar-cane ethanol production are lower than those associated with the creation of other biofuels, but a study shows that the process generates up to seven times more air pollutants than previously estimated from remote-sensing data. http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v480/n7377/full/480295c.html Thu, 15 Dec 2011 09:59:32 +0200 New Delhi, Dec 14 (PTI) Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia today released biography of Vithalrao Vikhe Patil, founder of cooperative movement of sugar industry of India. The biography \'\'The Pioneer\'\', authored by Arun Sadhu, is the saga of Patil\'\'s untiring efforts towards changing the rural scene of Maharasthra by exploring cooperative movement as an ideal medium for social, educational and economic upliftment of the rural masses. http://news.in.msn.com/business/article.aspx?cp-documentid=5677936 Thu, 15 Dec 2011 09:59:32 +0200 TULLY Sugar this week accepted the Proserpine creditors\' decision to support Sucrogen\'s offer to purchase its mill this week. http://nqr.farmonline.com.au/news/state/agribusiness-and-general/finance/tully-accepts-sucrogen-deal/2393101.aspx Thu, 15 Dec 2011 09:59:32 +0200 Sugar production in the European Union will climb to a record in the 2011-12 season on bigger harvests in France, Germany and the U.K., according to French crop office FranceAgriMer. http://www.blackseagrain.net/photo/eu-sugar-crop-to-set-record-in-2011-12-on-germany-france-u.k Thu, 15 Dec 2011 09:59:32 +0200 This is the time of year when sugar-cane trucks start to get on my nerves. It was worse in previous years, so maybe they have made some efforts that are paying off. http://www.houmatoday.com/article/20111214/ENTERTAINMENT/111219812/1026/news01?Title=Sugar-is-a-building-block-for-future-successes Thu, 15 Dec 2011 09:59:32 +0200 Maputo The Mozambican government will invest over the next ten years about 540 million US dollars in irrigation to boost agricultural production and productivity. http://allafrica.com/stories/201112140138.html Wed, 14 Dec 2011 12:22:06 +0200 PORT LOUIS (Reuters) - Mauritius\' Chamber of Agriculture revised its 2011 sugar production forecast upward by 4.9 percent to 430,000 tonnes on Tuesday on the back of improved sugar cane productivity. http://news.yahoo.com/mauritius-2011-sugar-estimate-lifted-430-000-t-115450670.html Wed, 14 Dec 2011 12:22:06 +0200 Dec 14 (Reuters) - Indonesia is concerned about domestic white sugar supplies between March and May next year when current stocks of 740,000 tonnes run out and the new crushing season has yet to start, a senior trade ministry official said on Wednesday. http://in.reuters.com/article/2011/12/14/indonesia-sugar-idINL3E7NE0WV20111214?rpc=401&feedType=RSS&feedName=domesticNews&rpc=401 Wed, 14 Dec 2011 12:22:06 +0200 Campaigners for a return of sugar beet production in Ireland have insisted that a 12pc fall in global sugar prices next year would not affect the viability of any new Irish processing plan. http://www.independent.ie/farming/news-features/predicted-price-fall-for-sugar-wont-hit-irish-plans-2961318.html? Wed, 14 Dec 2011 12:22:06 +0200 The Karnataka unit of the Consortium of Indian Farmers\' Associations and the Karnataka Sugarcane Growers\' Association have urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to remove all controls on sugar as an immediate step to help farmers in distress. http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/article2712573.ece Wed, 14 Dec 2011 12:22:06 +0200 SLAMABAD: Sugar manufacturers have sought permission of the government for export of 500,000 tons of the surplus commodity in order to stabilise the market. http://paktribune.com/business/news/Sugar-mills-seek-permission-for-export-9260.html Wed, 14 Dec 2011 12:22:06 +0200 The Sugar Industry Tribunal is yet to decide when the three sugar mills will cease crushing and farmers are advised to wait for instructions. http://www.radiofiji.com.fj/fullstory.php?id=42177 Wed, 14 Dec 2011 12:22:06 +0200 Distillers are blaming the reduced supply of molasses on a slanted tax regime, saying sugar companies prefer selling the product to farmers and jaggery traders. http://allafrica.com/stories/201112130078.html Tue, 13 Dec 2011 11:05:46 +0200 Despite an initial report of a slowdown in sugar production for the crop-year 2011-2012, the Philippine government remains optimistic that sugar exports to foreign destinations will reach its target volume. Actually, our only export obligation is the US quota http://ph.news.yahoo.com/phl-fill-sugar-export-targets-govt-083605137.html Tue, 13 Dec 2011 11:05:46 +0200 NEGROS Occidental Governor Alfredo Maraon Jr. expressed support for the Sugar Act sponsored by Representative Albee Benitez (3rd district, Negros Occidental). http://www.sunstar.com.ph/bacolod/local-news/2011/12/13/guv-backs-sugar-act-hopes-improved-sugar-prices-195564 Tue, 13 Dec 2011 11:05:46 +0200 Lucknow: Almost all sugar factories in Uttar Pradesh against whom the state government had lodged non-bailable FIRs under Section 3/7 of the IPC have obtained a stay from the Allahabad High Court on the arrest of their top executives and officers who had been named in the FIRs. http://www.financialexpress.com/news/Sugar-cos-obtain-stay-on-arrest-of-execs/887184/ Tue, 13 Dec 2011 11:05:46 +0200 NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--A 20-member sugar industry committee voted to extend trading hours of raw sugar futures on ICE Futures U.S., according to an e-mail seen by Dow Jones Newswires on Monday. http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20111212-713536.html Tue, 13 Dec 2011 11:05:46 +0200 It looks as though for Sony (South Nyanza) Sugar Company if it doesn\'t rain, it pours. http://allafrica.com/stories/201112120204.html Mon, 12 Dec 2011 16:31:41 +0200 Kenya\'s largest sugar producer Mumias has been awarded a new International Organization for Standardization (ISO) certificate by the Kenya Bureau of Standards. http://allafrica.com/stories/201112120171.html Mon, 12 Dec 2011 16:31:41 +0200 YONKERS City firefighters extinguished a roof fire at American Sugar Refining on the waterfront early this morning. http://www.lohud.com/article/20111212/NEWS/312120066? Mon, 12 Dec 2011 16:31:41 +0200 HYDERABAD, DEC. 12: While private sugar factories in Andhra Pradesh are busy doing the math to arrive at a price to be offered for the crushing season that has just started, those in cooperative sector are struggling to get their numbers right to survive. The sector has been languishing so much that a good number of them depend on Government support to pay salaries, forget about running them. http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/industry-and-economy/agri-biz/article2709233.ece? Mon, 12 Dec 2011 16:31:41 +0200 Delayed start to crushing in Maharashtra coupled with lower yields across the country has prompted leading industry analyst Kingsman SA to pare its India sugar output forecast marginally down to 25.5 million tonnes for 2011-12 sugar year starting October. http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/industry-and-economy/agri-biz/article2706930.ece? Mon, 12 Dec 2011 16:31:41 +0200 LA ISLA, Nicaragua Maudiel Martinez is 19 years old and has a shy smile, a tangle of curly black hair and a lean, muscular build shaped by years of work in the sugarcane fields. For most of his adolescence, he was healthy and strong and spent his days chopping tall stalks of cane with his machete. http://www.iwatchnews.org/2011/12/12/7578/thousands-sugar-cane-workers-die-wealthy-nations-stall-solutions Mon, 12 Dec 2011 16:31:41 +0200 For traditionalists, King Mswati III\'s troubled year, the rapid collapse of Swaziland\'s economy and the surge in pro-democracy protests has little to do with South Africa\'s revision of Southern African Customs Union (Sacu) disbursements late last year. It has its roots, instead, in an unfortunate variation in the mystic, and private, Incwala ceremony last December. http://allafrica.com/stories/201112090100.html Fri, 09 Dec 2011 07:47:50 +0200 Suspended Kenya Sugar Board chief executive Rosemary Mkok has been reinstated after being out of office since November last year. Mkok resumed duty on Monday and has been engaged in meetings with the acting chief executive officer Solomon Odera and other departmental heads. http://allafrica.com/stories/201112081454.html Fri, 09 Dec 2011 07:47:50 +0200 A Central Enterprise Management Organization has been established to replace the Ministry of Sugar, which came to be involved in enterprise operations The 178 bodies within the sugar industry will be reduced to only 26 It has been reiterated that no worker will be left without support http://www.granma.cu/ingles/cuba-i/8dic-Cuba%20reorganizes.html Fri, 09 Dec 2011 07:47:50 +0200 AUSTRALIAN sugar employees will have job security, and could even be given the chance to further their careers overseas, if Thai company Mitr Phol goes ahead with its takeover bid for MSF Sugar. http://www.qt.com.au/story/2011/12/08/sugar-employees-have-job-security/ Fri, 09 Dec 2011 07:47:50 +0200 One of Queensland\'s last sugar milling co-operatives, Proserpine Mill, near Mackay in the state\'s north, has been sold to foreign investors. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-12-09/sucrogen-buys-sugar-mill-for-120m/3722804? Fri, 09 Dec 2011 07:47:50 +0200 CANBERRA (MarketWatch) -- Proserpine Cooperative Sugar Milling Association\'s creditors on Friday approved the company\'s purchase by Wilmar International Ltd.\'s Sucrogen unit, cementing Sucrogen\'s place as Australia\'s leading sugar company. http://www.marketwatch.com/story/sucrogen-to-proceed-with-purchase-of-proserpine-2011-12-08 Fri, 09 Dec 2011 07:47:50 +0200 Wilmar International Ltd. (WIL), the world\'s largest palm oil processor, obtained a majority of creditor votes for its A$120 million ($122 million) purchase of Proserpine Sugar Mill, beating an approach from Cofco Ltd. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-12-09/wilmar-beats-china-s-cofco-to-buy-australia-s-proserpine-sugar-after-vote.html? Fri, 09 Dec 2011 07:47:50 +0200 AMID persistent reports of drop in sugar production, the Sugar Regulatory Administration (SRA) is considering lowering the initial production estimate of 2.4 million metric tons (MT) to only 2.2 million MT. http://www.sunstar.com.ph/bacolod/local-news/2011/12/09/lower-sugar-output-eyed-194909 Fri, 09 Dec 2011 07:47:50 +0200 REPRESENTATIVE Albee Benitez (3rd district, Negros Occidental) said he will file the Sugar Act bill next week, hoping for its speedy approval in both the Lower House and the Senate. http://www.sunstar.com.ph/bacolod/local-news/2011/12/09/sugar-act-be-filed-next-week-194908 Fri, 09 Dec 2011 07:47:50 +0200 The bitter-sweet duel between sugar mills and government authorities, which started in May this year, is far from over. http://www.brecorder.com/home/br-research/single/421/23:industry/2153:sugar-prices-fall-as-millers-worry/?date=2011-12-09 Fri, 09 Dec 2011 07:47:50 +0200 Crushing continues at three sugar mills as the season is nearing its end. Sugar Cane Growers Council acting chief executive Sundresh Chetty says cane supply is constant at the mills. http://www.radiofiji.com.fj/fullstory.php?id=42035 Fri, 09 Dec 2011 07:47:50 +0200 Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) -- European Union plans to import sugar at a reduced duty still forces refiners to pay almost three times as much as the rest of the bloc\'s sweetener industry, threatening their viability, according to a refiners\' group. http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-12-08/refiners-say-eu-sugar-tender-plan-threatens-their-future.html Fri, 09 Dec 2011 07:47:50 +0200 Sugar mills in Uttar Pradesh, the second largest producing state, have accrued an overall loss of Rs 220 crore due to a widening difference between cost of production and the prevailing ex-factory selling price. http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/up-sugar-mills-have-lost-rs-220-crweak-prices/457991/ Fri, 09 Dec 2011 07:47:50 +0200 LONDON: The European Union issued licenses to export 6,99,999 tonne of sugar in the 2011-12 season started in October, according to the European Commission, the bloc\'s regulatory arm. Applications were made to export 1.29 million tonne of the sweetener, according to a notice on the commission\'s website on Wednesday. http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international-business/european-union-approves-export-of-7-lakh-tonne-sugar/articleshow/11028287.cms? Thu, 08 Dec 2011 08:01:33 +0200 ISLAMABAD (APP) - Various sugar mills of Punjab are cutting weight of sugarcane in the name of non-variety of the crop and also offering lesser price to the farmers than the rates announced by the government for the year 2011-12, the farmers complained on Wednesday http://nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online/Business/08-Dec-2011/Sugar-mills-looting-farmers? Thu, 08 Dec 2011 08:01:33 +0200 CHINESE-OWNED Tully Sugar has slammed the administrator of the Proserpine sugar mill, KordaMentha, before a crucial creditors vote tomorrow, for failing to allow proper consideration of its $128 million takeover bid. Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/business/kordamentha-attacked-over-sugar-mill-sale-20111207-1oj6i.html#ixzz1fv76NNOL http://www.smh.com.au/business/kordamentha-attacked-over-sugar-mill-sale-20111207-1oj6i.html? Thu, 08 Dec 2011 08:01:33 +0200 PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND One Canadian ethanol plant is experimenting with a new source of the environmentally-friendly fuel: sugar beets. http://www.mlive.com/business/mid-michigan/index.ssf/2011/12/sugar_beets_crop_of_choice_for.html? Thu, 08 Dec 2011 08:01:33 +0200 The current low prices of sugar is very alarming, especially at this time when producers are at the peak of milling, Raymond Montinola, chairman of the Confederation of Sugar Producers Associations Negros Panay Chapter, said yesterday. http://www.visayandailystar.com/2011/December/08/topstory4.htm Thu, 08 Dec 2011 08:01:33 +0200 Cane growers have attacked plans to overhaul the industry\'s research and development arm and centralise its funding. http://www.abc.net.au/rural/news/content/201112/s3386624.htm Thu, 08 Dec 2011 08:01:33 +0200 MAJOR sugar producers have pledged assistance to Fiji\'s sugar industry from cane production through to processing. http://www.fijitimes.com/story.aspx?id=187900 Thu, 08 Dec 2011 08:01:33 +0200 A PROTRACTED battle between two Asian-based globalised agribusinesses for one of Australia\'s last grower-owned sugar mills may have taken a decisive turn yesterday ahead of a creditors meeting scheduled for tomorrow. http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/wall-street-journal/wilmar-in-sweet-spot-for-proserpine/story-fnay3vxj-1226216873518 Thu, 08 Dec 2011 08:01:33 +0200 \"Cargill has replaced the head of its sugar business, the most senior departure yet in the wake of the announcement 2,000 people will leave the group due to the continued weak global economy. Jonathan Drake, who joined Cargill as a graduate trainee http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/c240341e-20c0-11e1-816d-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1fv6eRbRl Thu, 08 Dec 2011 08:01:33 +0200 Sugar prices for the coming year are forecast to fall by 12% as the market records a surplus for the first time in three years, according to financial service provider Rabobank. http://www.foodnavigator.com/Financial-Industry/Sugar-prices-to-fall-for-2012-amid-volatility-Rabobank Wed, 07 Dec 2011 08:11:30 +0200 This season\'s sugar beet campaign is making good progress, with above-average yields, as Robert Harris reports http://www.fwi.co.uk/Articles/06/12/2011/130415/Sugar-beet-harvest-showing-above-average-yields.htm Wed, 07 Dec 2011 08:11:30 +0200 A majority of the beleaguered owners of the financially troubled Proserpine Cooperative Sugar Milling Association want an increasingly complex takeover tussle brought to an end at a creditors meeting scheduled for Friday, local cane farmer and director of the Canegrowers farmer lobby Peter Quod told Deal Journal Australia. http://blogs.wsj.com/dealjournalaustralia/2011/12/07/proserpine-creditors-to-vote-on-sugar-mill-ownership-friday/?mod=google_news_blog Wed, 07 Dec 2011 08:11:30 +0200 MORE THAN 500 farmers packed the Riverside Park hotel last week to discuss proposals for the revival of the Irish sugar industry. And suggestions that growers will need to invest 25,000 each towards the cost of building a factory to process the beet they grow did not put a damper on their interest. http://www.newrossstandard.ie/news/farmers-talk-about-revival-of-sugar-beet-2955465.html Wed, 07 Dec 2011 08:11:30 +0200 Sugar prices for the coming year are forecast to fall by 12% as the market records a surplus for the first time in three years, according to financial service provider Rabobank. http://www.foodnavigator.com/Financial-Industry/Sugar-prices-to-fall-for-2012-amid-volatility-Rabobank Wed, 07 Dec 2011 08:11:30 +0200 BASSETERRE, St. Kitts -- To truly appreciate the beauty of this island, you have to venture \"back o\' de land\" -- into the lush and picturesque countryside. And one of the best and most popular ways to explore this landscape, which has scarcely changed in the past century, is on the St. Kitts Scenic Rail Tour. http://vancouver.24hrs.ca/Lifestyle/travel/2011/12/06/19075276.html Wed, 07 Dec 2011 08:11:30 +0200 When you next reach for that slice of cake or polish off a packet of biscuits, consider that eating all that sugar could be leaving behind a rather unsightly after-effect. http://lifestyle.aol.co.uk/2011/12/06/is-eating-too-much-sugar-making-you-hairy/? Wed, 07 Dec 2011 08:11:30 +0200 John Updike, in his short story Plumbing, summarized human nature thusly: We think we are what we think and see when in truth we are upright bags of tripe. This is a tragic fact that we spend most our lives trying to forget. Although we like to imagine ourselves as the driver our consciousness is in full control that belief is a lovely illusion. In reality, we are mere passengers aboard the body, strapped to a fleshy engine that is driving us. http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/12/why-sugar-makes-us-sleepy-and-protein-wakes-us-up/ Wed, 07 Dec 2011 08:11:30 +0200 In the wake of persistent sugar cane shortage and the ever decreasing area under the raw material in the country, Mumias Sugar has announced plans to diversify its operation to shield it from competitive pressures. http://allafrica.com/stories/201112050069.html Mon, 05 Dec 2011 09:31:19 +0200