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Covering global trade issues, mergers and acquisitions, crop reports and more en-gb Tue, 19 Aug 2008 07:52:50 +0200 Copyright: (C) 2006 Wayne Jayes http://www.sugartech.co.za/ads/SEL120x60.gif http://www.sugartech.co.za/ Milling operations at Sony Sugar Company have resumed after a three-week maintenance operation. http://allafrica.com/stories/200808180830.html Tue, 19 Aug 2008 07:52:50 +0200 Mozambican Agriculture Minister Soares Nhaca has insisted that the government will only approve biofuels projects if they do not conflict with food production. http://allafrica.com/stories/200808181366.html Tue, 19 Aug 2008 07:52:50 +0200 NEW DELHI, August 18: Less than a fortnight after the Union Cabinet deferred a decision on decontrolling the sugar sector, the Central government has issued show cause notices to more than 250 mills across the country for failing to ensure adequate availability of the commodity to the people. http://www.indianexpress.com/story/350429.html Tue, 19 Aug 2008 07:52:50 +0200 LONDON, Aug 18 (Reuters) - Merchant Czarnikow forecast a global deficit of 3.3 million tonnes of sugar in 2008/09, after a 9.4 million surplus in 2007/08, signalling tighter supplies of the sweetener and prospect of prices firming further. http://www.forbes.com/reuters/feeds/reuters/2008/08/18/2008-08-18T105156Z_01_LI732788_RTRIDST_0_SUGAR-CZARNIKOW.html Tue, 19 Aug 2008 07:52:50 +0200 By 2011, Brazil will be the first country to manufacture polyethylene from sugar cane, according to Reforma, a Mexican newspaper. http://plastics.2456.com/eng/marketnews/details.asp?inewsiid=3&inid=76948&ptid=527&e=1 Tue, 19 Aug 2008 07:52:50 +0200 Secrecy could add to the steep cost of Florida\'s proposed $1.75 billion buyout of U.S. Sugar. http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/state/orl-sugar1708aug17,0,476137.story?track=rss Mon, 18 Aug 2008 07:58:25 +0200 Three cheers to attorney Lester Lehtinen for bringing up possible violations of Florida\'s Sunshine Law and questioning the purchase of U.S. Sugar property for $1.7 billion. http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/081708/opl_319113729.shtml Mon, 18 Aug 2008 07:58:25 +0200 NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Southern sugar farmers, struggling with rising fuel and production costs, say the federal government\'s decision to allow more foreign sugar into the United States to ensure adequate supplies is premature and could depress their prices. http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=20019955&BRD=1302&PAG=461&dept_id=181978&rfi=6 Mon, 18 Aug 2008 07:58:25 +0200 MUMBAI, Aug 18 (Reuters) - Indian sugar Sept futures were up in early morning trade on Monday as traders bet on good demand in the spot market after a long weekend, and on expectations of a global shortage in 2008/09, analysts said. http://in.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idINBOM17961020080818?rpc=401& Mon, 18 Aug 2008 07:58:25 +0200 Reacting to the recent surge in sugar prices, the government has issued notices to 250 sugar mills, seeking details of the quantity sold from the 2 million tonnes buffer stock with them. http://www.business-standard.com/india/storypage.php?autono=331713 Mon, 18 Aug 2008 07:58:25 +0200 The world is sitting on a huge stockpile of sugar, but global supply outlook will tighten into next year due to rain-induced crop problems in Brazil and falling output in India, auguring for higher prices. The International Sugar Organisation (ISO) estimates that global stocks of the sweetener will stand at 70 mt by end-September, 8-9 mt more than in the year-ago period. http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/Features/Investors_Guide/Global_sugar_supplies_to_tighten/rssarticleshow/3374861.cms Mon, 18 Aug 2008 07:58:25 +0200 NEW DELHI, Aug. 17: The sugar industry has demanded a long-term policy to be able to export regularly irrespective of variations in output, saying the irregular nature of sugar shipments from India is resulting in a low price realisation. http://www.thestatesman.net/page.news.php?clid=12&theme=&usrsess=1&id=218702 Mon, 18 Aug 2008 07:58:25 +0200 Guyana says it will halt sugar shipments to its Caribbean neighbors to meet export commitments to Europe. http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D92IR7700.htm Mon, 18 Aug 2008 07:58:25 +0200 Faced with low production due to poor weather and frequent strikes, Guyana has stopped selling sugar to the Caribbean and will focus on the more lucrative EU market, a top official said here. http://www.eubusiness.com/news-eu/1218788223.36 Mon, 18 Aug 2008 07:58:25 +0200 As workers at four sugar estates staged industrial action on Wednesday, the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GUYSUCO) has warned that their action has pushed back production even further and could result in a significant loss of revenue. http://libcom.org/news/guyana-sugar-workers-strike-15082008 Mon, 18 Aug 2008 07:58:25 +0200 Today’s continuation of negotiations over increased pay in the sugar industry has been cancelled, Guyana Agricultural and General Workers\' Union (GAWU) informed Guyana Sugar Corporation (GUYSUCO) yesterday. http://www.guyanaonline.net/news/index.php?C=Headlines&F=Details&A=64279 Mon, 18 Aug 2008 07:58:25 +0200 GEORGETOWN, Guyana: The Guyana Sugar Corporation, the manufacturer of sugar in Guyana, is not in a financial position to meet the pay demands of the sugar workers, which led to a stoppage of work on Wednesday. http://www.caribbeannetnews.com/news-9842--13-13--.html Mon, 18 Aug 2008 07:58:25 +0200 The world is sitting on a huge stockpile of sugar, but the global supply outlook will tighten into next year due to rain-induced crop problems in Brazil and falling output in India, auguring for higher prices. http://www.flex-news-food.com/console/PageViewer.aspx?page=18504&source=xml Mon, 18 Aug 2008 07:58:25 +0200 British Sugar, part of the £6.2bn Associated British Foods empire, set a deadline of Friday evening for farmers to sign contracts to supply it with sugar beet next year. http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/investing-and-markets/article.html?in_article_id=450054&in_page_id=3&ito=1565 Mon, 18 Aug 2008 07:58:25 +0200 The Managing Director of Dangote Sugar Refinery (DSR), Abdullahi Sule, has said that the company has paid dividends worth N10.2 billion for the half year ended 30th June, 2008. http://allafrica.com/stories/200808130951.html Fri, 15 Aug 2008 08:33:34 +0200 Radical changes are set for the agricultural sector in a bid to improve its productivity. http://allafrica.com/stories/200808120667.html Fri, 15 Aug 2008 08:33:34 +0200 SYDNEY, Aug 15, 2008 (AsiaPulse via COMTEX) -- CSRLF | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating -- Building products, aluminium and sugar producer CSR Ltd (ASX:CSR) has warned shareholders to beware of unsolicited offers they may receive for their shares. http://www.tradingmarkets.com/.site/news/Stock%20News/1828111/ Fri, 15 Aug 2008 08:33:34 +0200 Michigan\'s giant Kellogg Co. breakfast cereal maker has unfairly become the target of a misguided campaign against the first-ever commercial crop this year of genetically modified sugar beets. http://www.mlive.com/news/bctimes/index.ssf?/base/news-12/121872691773000.xml&coll=4 Fri, 15 Aug 2008 08:33:34 +0200 As the price of fuel rises, many nations are developing alternatives to petroleum-based products like gasoline. In the United States, much of the gasoline sold is blended with around 10 percent ethanol, a fuel made from crops such as corn and sugar. But elsewhere, ethanol plays a much larger role. Brazil is the world\'s largest exporter of ethanol and most of its cars run entirely on it. But environmental groups say ethanol may not be a viable alternative to gasoline. Steve Mort has more in this week\'s Searching for Solution report from Sao Paulo, Brazil. http://www.voanews.com/english/2008-08-14-voa52.cfm Fri, 15 Aug 2008 08:33:34 +0200 MIAMI — The proposed purchase of vast tracts of U.S. Sugar Corp. farmland holds such great promise for restoring the Everglades that it would be a mistake to order work to resume on a project begun before the deal was struck, a federal judge has ruled. http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2008/aug/14/judge-wont-order-everglades-reservoir-work-restart/ Fri, 15 Aug 2008 08:33:34 +0200 Aug. 14 (Bloomberg) -- Cosan SA Industria e Comercio, the world\'s biggest sugar-cane processor, will boost earnings next year as declining sugar stockpiles push up prices, Vice Chairman Pedro Mizutani said. The shares gained the most in two weeks. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601086&sid=aU6pTh7HHFEc&refer=news Fri, 15 Aug 2008 08:33:34 +0200 CAMAGÜEY, Cuba, Aug 13 (acn) On the international market, the price of sugar shot up from $316 per ton at the end of 2007, to a current world price of nearly $400. Cuba would have had to pay $384 for each ton, including shipping and insurance, while producing it in the country costs only 200 dollars per ton. http://www.mathaba.net/rss/?x=602219 Fri, 15 Aug 2008 08:33:34 +0200 Water managers pledged Wednesday to keep the public fully informed about negotiations to buy out U.S. Sugar -- just not quite yet. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/story/641303.html Fri, 15 Aug 2008 08:33:34 +0200 LAHORE (August 14 2008): Sugar mills, which were in default of around Rs 1 billion, have cleared Rs 180 million dues out of the total default. Sources in the Food Department told Business Recorder here on Wednesday that the minister had held meeting last week with 14 sugar mills having default of around Rs 1 billion and issued them a deadline for clearing the dues of the farmers by August 20. http://www.brecorder.com/index.php?id=791955&currPageNo=1&query=&search=&term=&supDate= Fri, 15 Aug 2008 08:33:34 +0200 HYDERABAD, Aug 13: Sugar mills in Sindh have been directed to pay outstanding dues of cane growers without further delay. http://www.dawn.com/2008/08/14/local21.htm Fri, 15 Aug 2008 08:33:34 +0200 ISLAMABAD: Sugar millers have rejected the indicative tariff announced by National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA) for co-generation power projects by sugar industry and a high level meeting would be held next week to resolve the issue of tariff, sources told Daily Times on Wednesday. http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008\\08\\14\\story_14-8-2008_pg5_17 Fri, 15 Aug 2008 08:33:34 +0200 Agriculture minister William Ruto is set to gazette new regulations to streamline the sugar industry this week. http://allafrica.com/stories/200808120642.html Fri, 15 Aug 2008 08:33:34 +0200 ALLEGATIONS of bias have been levelled against the Sugar Cane Growers Council board http://www.fijitimes.com/story.aspx?id=97770 Fri, 15 Aug 2008 08:33:34 +0200 Aug. 14 (Bloomberg) -- Cosan SA Industria e Comercio, the world\'s biggest sugar-cane processor, is seeking utility partners to increase sales of electricity from vegetable waste to 20 percent of revenue, Vice Chairman Pedro Mizutani said. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601086&sid=aVvtQtjLSnMM Fri, 15 Aug 2008 08:33:34 +0200 Some 300 workers of the sugar company, known by its French acronym as SOSUCAM, would loose their jobs following plans to restructure the outfit, The Post has learnt. http://allafrica.com/stories/200808110404.html Mon, 11 Aug 2008 20:24:24 +0200 YAOUNDE (Reuters) - Cameroonian sugar maker SOSUCAM is stockpiling tens of thousands of tonnes of sugar left unsold because it is unable to compete with cheaper sugar imported illegally from Latin America, the company said at the weekend. http://africa.reuters.com/country/NG/news/usnBAN156079.html Mon, 11 Aug 2008 20:24:24 +0200 KENYA\'S sugar production rose 9% to 520,404 tonnes in 2007 compared with 475,670 tonnes the previous year, the Kenya Sugar Board said. http://www.newvision.co.ug/D/8/220/643842 Mon, 11 Aug 2008 20:24:24 +0200 The Cane Sugar Refining Industry report provides in-depth analysis of the industry\'s key financial data, cost and pricing, competitive landscape, industry structure, and trends and opportunities. http://www.centredaily.com/business/story/768294.html Mon, 11 Aug 2008 20:24:24 +0200 Sugar grower Florida Crystals is lobbying for an inland port with the development of an industrial and commercial center just south of Lake Okeechobee. http://www.news-press.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080811/GREEN/80811029/1002/NEWS01 Mon, 11 Aug 2008 20:24:24 +0200 Since 1985, more than half of the sugar-producing operations in the United States have shut down, according to the American Sugar Alliance, the chief lobbying group for the nation\'s cane and sugar beet growers. http://www.palmbeachpost.com/business/content/business/epaper/2008/08/10/m1bz_sugarindustry_0811.html Mon, 11 Aug 2008 20:24:24 +0200 The sell-off of the national sugar maker Danisco Sugar has ceased to be a matter of speculation. The German Nordzucker is to acquire Danisco Sugar for 750 million Euro plus 75 million Euro for Danisco’s EU quota, both companies reported to the media on July 29. If the transaction is approved Danisco will repay some of the money to the shareholders through share repurchase of up to 140 million Euro. “The sale of Danisco Sugar is a good solution for our shareholders and another milestone in our efforts to create a targeted ingredient company after the sale of Flavours in 2007,” Danisco’s CEO Tom Knutzen said to Copenhagen Capacity. Knutzen also has signed supply agreements with the Danish and Swedish sugar beet growers for the future beet campaigns. http://www.neurope.eu/view_news.php?id=89226 Mon, 11 Aug 2008 20:24:24 +0200 Brown & Company PLC expects to commence the commercial production of the Hingurana Sugar factory within one year\'s time. http://www.dailynews.lk/2008/08/11/bus01.asp Mon, 11 Aug 2008 20:24:24 +0200 After a couple of distinctly unpleasant-tasting years for European sugar refiners, the EU’s sugar mountain could soon disappear. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/41b09f4a-66f7-11dd-808f-0000779fd18c.html?nclick_check=1 Mon, 11 Aug 2008 20:24:24 +0200 AE Biofuels Inc. said Monday it opened an integrated cellulosic ethanol commercial demonstration facility in Butte, Montana. http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2008/08/11/daily8.html Mon, 11 Aug 2008 20:24:24 +0200 The police recovered on Friday five tons of raw sugar worth over P120,000 that was stolen from Victorias Milling Company (VMC) in Cadiz City, Negros Occidental. http://globalnation.inquirer.net/cebudailynews/visayas/view/20080811-153948/Police-recover-stolen-raw-sugar Mon, 11 Aug 2008 20:24:24 +0200 The privatization of Turkey\'s sugar factories, which affects a total of 10 million people, should be stopped, İbrahim Yetkin, head of the Agriculturists Association of Turkey, said at a press conference yesterday. Criticizing the selection of a British firm rather than a Turkish firm as the consultant for the privatization process, Yetkin said the views of the related professional and nongovernmental organizations should be considered. http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=112228 Mon, 11 Aug 2008 20:24:24 +0200 The Privatization Administration Board is getting ready to initiate the process for privatization of sugar factories in August. http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=246051 Mon, 11 Aug 2008 20:24:24 +0200 Aug. 6 (Bloomberg) -- Sugar rose on speculation that a global surplus will shrink as yields fall in Brazil, the world\'s largest producer, and more cane is used to make a fuel additive instead of sweetener. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601012&sid=ajSrt3qSrlwc&refer=commodities Thu, 07 Aug 2008 05:28:46 +0200 WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The U.S. is experiencing a tight market for refined sugar due to significantly reduced domestic refining capacity resulting from the February 2008 explosion of a domestic raw cane sugar refinery and a reduction in this coming crop year\'s sugar beet production. http://www.agprofessional.com/show_story.php?id=53513 Thu, 07 Aug 2008 05:28:46 +0200 THE Sugar Cane Growers Council has warned that the industry could collapse if farmers and lorry drivers were not provided with the necessary assistance to cope with increasing fuel prices. http://www.fijitimes.com/story.aspx?id=97200 Thu, 07 Aug 2008 05:28:46 +0200 HAVANA (AP) - Cuba expects to meet domestic sugar demand in 2009 for the first time after a major restructuring six years ago of a once-critical industry, a senior ministry official said Wednesday. http://www.newspress.com/Top/Article/article.jsp?Section=BUSINESS&ID=565346137419417377 Thu, 07 Aug 2008 05:28:46 +0200 HAVANA - Cuba expects to meet domestic sugar demand in 2009 for the first time after a major restructuring six years ago of a once-critical industry, a senior ministry official said Wednesday. http://www.cnbc.com/id/26061335/for/cnbc Thu, 07 Aug 2008 05:28:46 +0200 Havana, Aug 6 (Prensa Latina) Cuban sugar cane derivative production matches and some lines even exceed the diversity of the 1980s, prior to the austerity period, said Vice Minister Juan Godefroy. http://www.plenglish.com/article.asp?ID={512A9106-D31F-4358-9DCE-E0CAD04EEC9A})&language=EN Thu, 07 Aug 2008 05:28:46 +0200 PAKISTAN has prevented more than 100 sugar trucks from entering Afghanistan, businessmen in the eastern province of Nangarhar say. http://quqnoos.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1323&Itemid=73 Thu, 07 Aug 2008 05:28:46 +0200 Chennai, Aug. 6 E.I.D. Parry (India) Ltd is set to complete its Rs 850-crore sugar mill expansion programme that would see it emerge as a fully integrated sugar producer with cogeneration and distillery facilities in all its sugar mills. http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2008/08/07/stories/2008080751140300.htm Thu, 07 Aug 2008 05:28:46 +0200 Punjab co-operation minister Capt Kanwaljit Singh today asserted that the next Lok Sabha elections may be held in November because the UPA government was not on firm footing. http://www.tribuneindia.com/2008/20080807/cth2.htm#2 Thu, 07 Aug 2008 05:28:46 +0200 CANADA-based Lallemand has evolved into a leading global developer of specialty yeasts and bacteria for human and animal nutrition, as well as for fuel ethanol and fermented beverages. http://allafrica.com/stories/200808050999.html Thu, 07 Aug 2008 05:28:46 +0200 The company that built Invesco Field at Mile High and Elitch Gardens in Denver is in the process of taking down the former Western Sugar Cooperative site in Greeley, which will become home to a plant for the world\'s largest mozzarella cheese producer. http://www.greeleytribune.com/article/20080806/NEWS/531506486/1001/ENTERTAIN&parentprofile=-1 Thu, 07 Aug 2008 05:28:46 +0200 AGRICULTURAL processing and land management group Tongaat Hulett is fast-tracking the planning of renewable power generation at four of its eight sugar mills because of predictions \"that electricity demand in SA will exceed generating capacity for a five- to seven-year period\". http://allafrica.com/stories/200808050361.html Wed, 06 Aug 2008 07:40:15 +0200 SOUTH African-based agro-processor, Tongaat Hullett says it is well positioned to grow its local sugar business and has lined up significant capital for future expansion. http://www.herald.co.zw/inside.aspx?sectid=47&cat=8 Wed, 06 Aug 2008 07:40:15 +0200 Officials say a fire at the Minn-Dak Farmers Cooperative sugar plant just north of Wahpeton is under control. http://www.kqcd.com/News_Stories.asp?news=21055 Wed, 06 Aug 2008 07:40:15 +0200 SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazil would restrict sugar cane planting in one of the world\'s largest wetland areas if the government approves a proposal to protect the Pantanal area\'s ecology, the Environment Ministry said on Tuesday. http://uk.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/20080805/twl-environment-cane-brazil-wetlands-dc-1202b49.html Wed, 06 Aug 2008 07:40:15 +0200 THE Fiji Sugar Corporation will be greatly affected by the recent increase in fuel prices. http://www.fijitimes.com/story.aspx?id=97096 Wed, 06 Aug 2008 07:40:15 +0200 MOSCOW, Aug 5 - Razgulay, one of Russia\'s largest agribusiness companies, said on Tuesday it had sold its 100 percent interest in a grain elevator and sugar refinery in the Russian Volga republic of Tatarstan. Razgulay did not disclose the price or the buyer of the Nurlatsky elevator, which can store 113,400 tonnes of grain, or the sugar refinery of the same name, which can process 194,250 tonnes of beet and 90,000 tonnes of raw cane sugar per year. http://malaysia.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/20080805/tbs-russia-razgulay-7318940.html Wed, 06 Aug 2008 07:40:15 +0200 WHILE there is a drive by Zimbabwe and most other African countries to develop biofuels as a response to both climate change and the rising petroleum fuel import bill, agronomists and environmentalists say this must be done cautiously so as not to threaten food security and sovereignty. http://allafrica.com/stories/200808040577.html Tue, 05 Aug 2008 06:12:32 +0200 Hard-pressed to explain the Cabinet insistence to give away Mabira Forest, the Minister for Water and Environment, Ms Maria Mutagamba said nobody can push her to give away the forest. http://allafrica.com/stories/200808040055.html Tue, 05 Aug 2008 06:12:32 +0200 Mozambican President Armando Guebuza on Saturday praised the efforts of the Maputo provincial government in the fight against poverty and to improve living standards. http://allafrica.com/stories/200808040012.html Tue, 05 Aug 2008 06:12:32 +0200 In 2005, the local timber industry implemented a self-regulation programme amongst all its stakeholders to improve the quality of loading practices and general vehicle safety. Back then it went under the name of the Load Accreditation Programme (LAP) and had a good deal of success in reducing overloading and accident rates in the forestry sector. Today, LAP has moved into the sugar industry, but under the banner of The Road Transport Management System (RTMS). Explaining to FleetWatch what the system entails is Andrew Crickmay, of Crickmay and Associates, a consulting firm playing a key role in the roll-out of the RTMS. http://fleetwatch.co.za/magazines/Jul2008/39-Better%20Quality%20Sugar%20Transport.htm Tue, 05 Aug 2008 06:12:32 +0200 German sugar producing company Südzucker is said to be considering Ebro Puleva\'s sugar division as a potential takeover target, German media report. http://www.flex-news-food.com/console/PageViewer.aspx?page=18237&source=xml Tue, 05 Aug 2008 06:12:32 +0200 KARACHI, Aug 4: Sugar mills have urged the government to ban import of refined sugar. http://www.dawn.com/2008/08/05/ebr5.htm Tue, 05 Aug 2008 06:12:32 +0200 ISLAMABAD (August 05 2008): The government has increased assessment value, from Rs 21.50 to Rs 24.57 per kg, on taxable supply of locally produced white crystalline sugar for the purpose of sales tax calculation. Resultantly, incidence of sales tax has been increased on supply of locally produced white crystalline sugar. http://www.brecorder.com/index.php?id=782856&currPageNo=1&query=&search=&term=&supDate= Tue, 05 Aug 2008 06:12:32 +0200 India’s production may drop 25% in the year starting October to 20 million tonnes as farmers reduced the area planted under sugar cane because of insufficient rainfall http://www.livemint.com/2008/08/04234031/Costlier-sugar-at-home-hits-ex.html Tue, 05 Aug 2008 06:12:32 +0200 Colombian sugar production exports in the first three months of 2008 fell 5% to 559,777 metric tons mixed value, the Colombian Cane Sugar Producers Association, or Asocana, said Monday. http://news.ino.com/headlines/?newsid=20080804015908 Tue, 05 Aug 2008 06:12:32 +0200 Spot prices of Sugar remained steady to weak due to sluggish trade on Saturday. http://www.commodityonline.com/futures-trading/technical/Sugar-trading-tips-and-trends-for-today-5546.html Tue, 05 Aug 2008 06:12:32 +0200 Two consultancy companies hired to prepare the rehabilitation of the Massingir dam in the southern province of Gaza, did not do their job properly, and this may have contributed to the accident that caused serious damage to the dam in May. http://allafrica.com/stories/200808010959.html?viewall=1 Mon, 04 Aug 2008 07:53:58 +0200 At a time when the world is concerned with the impact of global warming in developing nations, the Ugandan government has decided to give away 7,100 hectares (15,000acres) of Mabira Rainforest to be used as a sugar plantation. Mabira rainforest located next to Lake Victoria is the last remaining natural rainforest in Uganda. It is a conservation center for Ugandans as well as many scholars who come to conduct research. The destruction of the forest will have unimaginable consequences for the millions of civilians that depend on the surrounding areas for agriculture, not to mention the drying up of one of Africa\'s main body of freshwater, Lake Victoria. http://www.helium.com/items/281485-uganda-and-the-sugar-corporation-economy-vs-environment Mon, 04 Aug 2008 07:53:58 +0200 A technical advisor for Fijis sugar industry is expected in the country next week on a fact finding mission, who will be inspecting the four sugar mills. http://www.fijitimes.com/story.aspx?id=96877 Mon, 04 Aug 2008 07:53:58 +0200 Dexter Lehtinen said Friday he filed a lawsuit against the South Florida Water Management District, alleging violations of the Sunshine Law during “secret negotiations” leading to the district’s $1.8 billion buyout plan of U.S. Sugar Corp. properties south of Lake Okeechobee http://www.bizjournals.com/southflorida/stories/2008/07/28/daily51.html?ana=from_rss Mon, 04 Aug 2008 07:53:58 +0200 That\'s the hit counties in South Florida could take if the state buyout of U.S. Sugar Corp. happened now, according to a draft research paper by University of Florida agricultural economists. http://www.news-press.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080802/NEWS0103/808020386/1005/ACC Mon, 04 Aug 2008 07:53:58 +0200 MIAMI (AP) -- Florida\'s proposal to acquire 300 square miles of Everglades land from U.S. Sugar Corp. was illegally brokered in closed-door meetings, an attorney claimed in a lawsuit filed Friday. http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EVERGLADES_RESTORATION_FLOL-?SITE=FLTAM&SECTION=HOME Mon, 04 Aug 2008 07:53:58 +0200 Last Sunday few knew about the agreement between Florida and U.S. Sugar to buy 300 square miles of cane fields and sugar-processing facilities to help save the Everglades. Word started to leak on Monday and by 10:30 a.m. Tuesday the historic agreement had officially been announced and was making headlines from Melbourne (Australia) to St. Petersburg (Russia). http://www.naplesnews.com/news/2008/jun/28/phil-lewis-us-sugar-purchase-big-deal/ Mon, 04 Aug 2008 07:53:58 +0200 Since January 2005, the industry has spooned the Georgia Republican $58,000 in campaign funds - more than any other U.S. senator except for New York Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton. http://savannahnow.com/node/544670 Mon, 04 Aug 2008 07:53:58 +0200 ISLAMABAD (APP): Sugar mills still owe millions of rupees to farmers, so they were unable to invest in other crops. Sher Ali, a farmer from Sargodha told APP, the crushing season had ended in March but the farmers have not been paid the cost of sugarcane. Farmers have no money to invest in other crops like rice and sugarcane crop for the next season, he added. Muhammed Qasim, another farmer from Shahpur (Sargodha) said that load-shedding, increasing prices, non-availability and black marketing of fertilizers, like DAP, urea, pesticides and petroleum products and no payment to farmers by the sugar mills have aggravated the economic problems of the farmers. The inadequate canal system in the country, load-shedding and rising POL prices also have created acute shortage of water in the agri sector as it is a basic need for the irrigation and growth of crops, he added. He said that the government has given subsidy on DAP fertilizer but it is not available on subsidized prices in the markets. The expenditure on the sugarcane crop is very high but the rate of sugarcane per 40 kg is very low, besides non-payment by the sugar mills have badly affected production of various crops, he added. He said that when farmers produce bumper crop in any season, sugar mills refuse to purchase the crop. http://www.thefrontierpost.com/News.aspx?ncat=bn&nid=495 Mon, 04 Aug 2008 07:53:58 +0200 ERODE: Sugarcane cultivation is no longer sweet. It has left a bad taste on farmers, who have started switching over to other crops. Sugar mills are supposed to pay farmers Rs. 1,100 a tonne, an amount the Government fixes. The farmers, however, do not get the amount in full. Mills deduct the amount they spend for harvest and transport. http://www.thehindu.com/2008/08/04/stories/2008080459640900.htm Mon, 04 Aug 2008 07:53:58 +0200 For every unit of energy put into producing ethanol from corn, there is only 1 1/2 units out. This makes very little economic sense. This is compounded by the lack of corn on the market for food and cattle feed. This is helping to drive the costs of both of these up. http://www.cdapress.com/articles/2008/08/03/editorials/letters/letter09.txt Mon, 04 Aug 2008 07:53:58 +0200 An Imperial Sugar Co. executive\'s lawyer says the company put U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss up to harassing his client at a subcommittee hearing http://savannahnow.com/node/542481 Fri, 01 Aug 2008 07:29:29 +0200 Starafricacorporation said yesterday it is working with the National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) to improve the transportation and supply of sugar from its Chiredzi plant to all parts of the country. http://allafrica.com/stories/200807300063.html Fri, 01 Aug 2008 07:28:52 +0200 THE Industrial Development Corporation has intensified its bid to operationalise its US$200 million sugar production, milling and refining project earmarked for Chisumbanje Estate in Manicaland Province. http://allafrica.com/stories/200807300009.html Fri, 01 Aug 2008 07:28:52 +0200 The proposed U.S. Sugar Corp. buyout could mean a loss of $1.64 billion in economic output per year and 10,711 jobs statewide, a University of Florida study estimates. http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/content/business/epaper/2008/07/31/m1a_sugar_0801.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=6 Fri, 01 Aug 2008 07:28:52 +0200 THERE\'S A LOT OF SUGAR GROWN IN POLITICAL SWING STATES. AND, SUGAR FARMERS IN FLORIDA, MINNESOTA, COLORADO, MICHIGAN, AND LOUISIANA SAY THAT THEY\'LL BE LOOKING AT JUST ONE ISSUE--FARM POLICY--WHEN CASTING THEIR VOTE FOR PRESIDENT. ALAN WELP FARMS NEAR DENVER--THE SITE OF THE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION; AS PRESIDENT OF THE AMERICAN SUGARBEET GROWERS ASSOCIATION, HE TALKS TO PRODUCERS ACROSS THE COUNTRY... http://radiospace.com/asa.htm Fri, 01 Aug 2008 07:28:52 +0200 SAO PAULO, July 31 (Reuters) - Average prices for sugar and ethanol will likely rise in 2008/09 compared with last season, but not more than 15 percent, Brazil\'s largest sugar and ethanol group, Cosan (CSAN3.SA: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz), said on Thursday. http://www.reuters.com/article/rbssConsumerGoodsAndRetailNews/idUSN3148971220080731?rpc=401& Fri, 01 Aug 2008 07:28:52 +0200 July 31 (Bloomberg) -- Sugar rose for a third straight day in New York, reaching a two-week high, on concern that dry weather may threaten India\'s cane crop and Brazil\'s output may fall. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601012&sid=acNXPR8YPrKk&refer=commodities Fri, 01 Aug 2008 07:28:52 +0200 Florida lawmakers support preserving the Everglades, and have been generally supportive of Gov. Charlie Crist\'s plan to buy as much as 200,000 acres from U.S. Sugar to speed up the process. But, as the St. Petersburg Times reports, lawmakers are not happy that Crist kept the Legislature in the dark over the deal with U.S. Sugar. For more on the story, click here. http://jacksonville.bizjournals.com/jacksonville/stories/2008/07/28/daily23.html?jst=b_ln_hl Fri, 01 Aug 2008 07:28:52 +0200 Kiev, July 31 - Ukraine\'s sugar beet crop is likely to decline to a maximum of 14 million tonnes this year from 17 million in 2007, a top agriculture official was quoted as saying on Thursday. Deputy agriculture minister Ivan Demchak, quoted by Interfax Ukraine news agency, said a lower sugar beet area was the main reason for the decrease. http://www.flex-news-food.com/console/PageViewer.aspx?page=18165&source=xml Fri, 01 Aug 2008 07:28:52 +0200 A NEW sugar beet fungicide from Syngenta controls all key diseases and can boost sugar yields by up to 120 per cent, says the company. http://www.farmersguardian.com/story.asp?sectioncode=19&storycode=20345 Fri, 01 Aug 2008 07:28:52 +0200 Nathuram Darbhunauth, the sugar worker who was found dead in a canal at the Uitvlugt Estate on Saturday, died from drowning. http://www.stabroeknews.com/news/uitvlugt-sugar-worker-drowned-%e2%80%93-autopsy/ Fri, 01 Aug 2008 07:28:52 +0200 The Government supports additional investors in the sugar industry as so long as they fulfil the necessary investment conditions, Lands Minister James Orengo has said. http://www.eastandard.net/InsidePage.php?id=1143991371&cid=14&j=&m=&d= Fri, 01 Aug 2008 07:28:52 +0200 CSR will spend $17.8 million to increase its ethanol production capacity to 60 million litres per annum. http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24111470-5005200,00.html Fri, 01 Aug 2008 07:28:52 +0200 Theft of irrigation equipment cost the Mafambisse sugar company, in the central Mozambican province of Sofala, at least 188 million meticais (about 7.8 million US dollars) between January and May of this year, according to a report in the Beira daily paper \"Diario de Mocambique\". http://allafrica.com/stories/200807290952.html Wed, 30 Jul 2008 07:30:00 +0200 WASHINGTON (AP) — An executive at a sugar company faulted for a deadly refinery accident in February said he found such \"shocking\" and \"disgraceful\" conditions at the Georgia plant last year that he warned his superiors that a fatal disaster was likely. http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5ihpVcnOf-gTWaAlg6fBB3fMWuXKgD927NI4G2 Wed, 30 Jul 2008 07:30:00 +0200 WASHINGTON (AP) - A sugar company executive says he warned his bosses last year that a fatal disaster was likely at a plant in Georgia. http://www.wect.com/Global/story.asp?S=8756605 Wed, 30 Jul 2008 07:30:00 +0200 Starafricacorporation said yesterday it is working with the National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) to improve the transportation and supply of sugar from its Chiredzi plant to all parts of the country. http://www.herald.co.zw/inside.aspx?sectid=1400&cat=8 Wed, 30 Jul 2008 07:30:00 +0200 Spain\'s biggest food company, Ebro Puleva (EVA.MC: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) said on Tuesday 11 potential bidders have signed confidentiality agreements for the sale of its sugar division. http://www.reuters.com/article/mergersNews/idUSMDT00543620080729?rpc=401& Wed, 30 Jul 2008 07:30:00 +0200 Colombian sugar production exports in the calendar year 2007 ended down 5.7% at 2,277,120 metric tons mixed value, the Colombian Cane Sugar Producers Association, or Asocana, said Tuesday. http://news.ino.com/headlines/?newsid=20080729021737 Wed, 30 Jul 2008 07:30:00 +0200 GASOLINE being one commodity that economists consider as having inelastic demand, motorists and consumers are likely to buy it even with escalation of prices. Crude oil surged from $45 a barrel in 2004 to over $145 per barrel this July. A little over a decade ago, oil was just $11 a barrel! http://www.journal.com.ph/index.php?issue=2008-07-30&sec=14&aid=68331 Wed, 30 Jul 2008 07:30:00 +0200 The German Nordzucker is to acquire Danisco Sugar for EUR 750 million plus EUR 75 million for Danisco’s EU quota. http://www.copcap.com/composite-11271.htm Tue, 29 Jul 2008 07:26:59 +0200 WASHINGTON — The head of a sugar company blamed for a Georgia refinery explosion that killed 13 workers in February sought to shift fault back to the government Monday by calling federal guidance on industrial dust accidents \"woefully inadequate.\" http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/business/5911752.html Tue, 29 Jul 2008 07:26:59 +0200 Sugar mills in the central part of Brazil, the world\'s largest grower of the sweetener, will have to accelerate production if they are to meet forecasts for record sugar-cane output, C. Czarnikow Sugar Futures Ltd. said. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601086&sid=akWSz8ixONQ0&refer=latin_america Tue, 29 Jul 2008 07:26:59 +0200 LAHORE: The government’s decision of banning sugar export and allowing import will destroy the local industry and this will make the farmers prone to become the victims of the sugar-mafia, industry stakeholders told Daily Times Monday. http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008\\07\\29\\story_29-7-2008_pg5_24 Tue, 29 Jul 2008 07:26:59 +0200 London-based Armajaro Asset Management has announced plans to expand its commodity hedge fund offering with a third specialist commodity fund. Following the Armajaro Commodities Fund and CC+ Fund, Armajaro is set to launch a sugar-focused fund in the third quarter of this year. http://www.hedgemedia.com/articles/detail.jsp?content_id=262200 Tue, 29 Jul 2008 07:26:59 +0200 A NEW sugar beet fungicide from Syngenta controls all key diseases and can boost sugar yields by up to 120 per cent, says the company. http://www.farmersguardian.com/story.asp?sectioncode=19&storycode=20296&c=1 Tue, 29 Jul 2008 07:26:59 +0200 Spraying olive trees with a natural product from sugar beet has successfully stopped some varieties of olive trees in the South Island being knocked by frosts. http://www.3news.co.nz/News/Business/Growerprotectsolivetreesfromfrostwithsugarbeetextract/tabid/421/articleID/64724/Default.aspx?ArticleID=64724 Tue, 29 Jul 2008 07:26:59 +0200 Imperial Sugar CEO John Sheptor said there may be \"significant\'\' penalties proposed when federal workplace safety regulators release their findings after investigating a dust explosion that killed 13 workers at a company sugar refinery in Georgia. http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southeast/2008/07/28/92245.htm Mon, 28 Jul 2008 08:06:14 +0200 SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — A Georgia lawmaker says federal officials are proposing $8.7 million in fines against Imperial Sugar for violations at a plant near Savannah where an explosion killed 13 people and at another plant in Louisiana. http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-07-25-sugar_N.htm?csp=34 Mon, 28 Jul 2008 08:06:14 +0200 State regulators have fined Domino Sugar $4,000 for allowing sugar dust to accumulate at a Baltimore plant damaged in an explosion last year. http://www.examiner.com/a-1506929~Domino_fined_for_sugar_dust_at_Baltimore_plant.html Mon, 28 Jul 2008 08:06:14 +0200 ISLAMABAD: The Daily Economic Monitoring Committee has advised the ministry of Commerce to immediately ban export of sugar and notify removal of import duty on sugar import by private sector in consideration of increased domestic consumption and in order to stabilize the prices. http://paktribune.com/news/index.shtml?203782 Mon, 28 Jul 2008 08:06:14 +0200 TONGAAT Hulett notified shareholders it expects a 44% rise in profit from operations to R443m when it reports interim results on August 4. http://allafrica.com/stories/200807250634.html Mon, 28 Jul 2008 08:06:14 +0200 RIO HONDO - A 40,000-ton sugar warehouse that was under construction at the Port of Harlingen was destroyed Wednesday by Hurricane Dolly, Port Director Butch Palmer said Thursday. http://www.valleymorningstar.com/news/palmer_31417___article.html/port_construction.html Mon, 28 Jul 2008 08:06:14 +0200 ISLAMABAD (July 28 2008): Sugar industry has shown inability to enter into an agreement with the government for co-generation of power, saying that the tariff offered by National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) was not enough to take on the job. http://www.brecorder.com/index.php?id=776719&currPageNo=1&query=&search=&term=&supDate= Mon, 28 Jul 2008 08:06:14 +0200 Nearly six months after a dust explosion killed 13 workers at a sugar refinery, federal workplace safety regulators have completed their investigation into the blast and are poised to issue their findings. http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080724/ga_refinery_blast.html?.v=2 Fri, 25 Jul 2008 07:25:50 +0200 Federal investigators are set to release their report on the deadly sugar refinery explosion near Savannah, GA. http://www.cbs47.com/content/topstories/story.aspx?content_id=20ec4be4-acc9-436f-b7aa-62fe0cd24995&rss=1 Fri, 25 Jul 2008 07:25:50 +0200 Federal investigators are ready to release their report on the deadly Feb. 7 explosion at the Imperial Sugar refinery near Savannah. http://www.cbs46.com/news/16978290/detail.html?rss=lnta&psp=news Fri, 25 Jul 2008 07:25:50 +0200 Nearly six months after a dust explosion killed 13 workers at a sugar refinery, federal workplace safety regulators have completed their investigation into the blast and are poised to issue their findings. http://www.canadianbusiness.com/markets/headline_news/article.jsp?content=D924E7PO2 Fri, 25 Jul 2008 07:25:50 +0200 The Government has allowed into the country 3,117 tonnes of refined industrial sugar to avert a shortage in manufacturing. http://www.nationmedia.com/dailynation/nmgcontententry.asp?category_id=3&newsid=127992 Fri, 25 Jul 2008 07:25:50 +0200 BUDAPEST, July 24 (Reuters) - Hungary\'s last remaining sugar factory may import Zimbabwean sugar cane to stay abreast of a wave of market reform that hasshut down entire industries elsewhere in central Europe. Magyar Cukor, a unit of Austria\'s Agrana, has said it planned to make about 100,000 tonnes of sugar this year, down from 120,000 tonnes in 2007 after it handed back 30 percent of its production quotas to the European Union last year. http://africa.reuters.com/country/ZW/news/usnL2688272.html Fri, 25 Jul 2008 07:25:50 +0200 Speaking at a conference reviewing the 2007-08 sugar crop, VSSA Secretary General Ha Huu Phai said Vietnam has now stockpiled 1.25 million tonnes of sugar after this year’s crop. The sugar reserve combines last year’s crop and a volume of imported sugar that complies with WTO commitments. http://www.vnanet.vn/Home/EN/tabid/119/itemid/260091/Default.aspx Fri, 25 Jul 2008 07:25:50 +0200 The central government will clear Rs 350 crore worth of subsidy claims of sugar factories across the country during the current financial year, said RP Bhagria, chief director (sugar), directorate of sugar, Union ministry of consumer affairs, food and public distribution. http://www.business-standard.com/common/storypage_c_online.php?leftnm=10&bKeyFlag=IN&autono=43125 Fri, 25 Jul 2008 07:25:50 +0200 A 3,500 tonne per day sugar factory, with integrated sugar mill status, would soon be set up at Udumbiyam village in Perambalur district at a cost of Rs 350 crore, according to a top company official. http://www.business-standard.com/common/storypage_c_online.php?leftnm=10&bKeyFlag=IN&autono=42914 Fri, 25 Jul 2008 07:25:50 +0200 TIRUCHIRAPALLI: A 3,500 tonne per day sugar factory, with integrated sugar mill status, would soon be set up at Udumbiyam village in Perambalur district at a cost of Rs 350 crore, according to a top company official. http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/News/Economy/Rs_350_cr_sugar_factory_to_come_up_at_Perambalur_dist/rssarticleshow/3268804.cms Fri, 25 Jul 2008 07:25:50 +0200 I am responding to the misleading and inaccurate statements in the July 13 letter to the editor, “We don’t want sugar from modified beets.” http://www.in-forum.com/articles/index.cfm?id=209101&section=Opinion&freebie_check&CFID=60528807&CFTOKEN=50339001&jsessionid=883039a5194d40407606 Fri, 25 Jul 2008 07:25:50 +0200 Residents of Amuru District have rejected the proposed leasing of their land to the Madhvani Group of Companies for a sugarcane growing project. http://allafrica.com/stories/200807231249.html Thu, 24 Jul 2008 07:27:16 +0200 SUGAR refiner and sweetener maker Tate and Lyle said it had made a satisfactory start to its financial year and was on track to make progress for the year as a whole. http://business.scotsman.com/fooddrinkagriculture/Sweet-start-for-sugar-refiner.4315441.jp Thu, 24 Jul 2008 07:27:16 +0200 Tate & Lyle, the sweeteners group, said on Wednesday it had made a “satisfactory start” to the year, although it warned that the fallout from the European Union’s sugar reform plans would continue to weigh on business for the next six months. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/3272b472-587f-11dd-a093-000077b07658.html?nclick_check=1 Thu, 24 Jul 2008 07:27:16 +0200 Parts of Queensland have enjoyed record rain in the past 24 hours, proving a mixed blessing for primary producers. http://www.abc.net.au/rural/news/content/200807/s2313074.htm Thu, 24 Jul 2008 07:27:16 +0200 SYDNEY, July 24 (Reuters) - Heavy rain has brought sugar cane harvesting and crushing to a halt in key areas of Australia\'s sugar state of Queensland, potentially hampering annual production, the Canegrowers organisation said on Thursday. http://money.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=602997 Thu, 24 Jul 2008 07:27:16 +0200 CHENNAI: With food processing and agri business emerging as the new sunrise sectors, both businesses are pitted to grow sizably in the future. http://www.newindpress.com/NewsItems.asp?ID=IEB20080723144541&Page=B&Title=Business&Topic=0 Thu, 24 Jul 2008 07:27:16 +0200 Opponents of the artificial sweetener aspartame have told MPs that diet drinks and other products containing the substance should be banned from schools. http://www.3news.co.nz/News/National/Petitioncallsforbanonsugarfreedrinksinschools/tabid/423/articleID/64109/Default.aspx?ArticleID=64109 Thu, 24 Jul 2008 07:27:16 +0200 LONDON: Sugar refiner and sweetener maker Tate & Lyle said on Wednesday it had made a satisfactory start to its financial year and was on track to achieve progress for the year as a whole. http://www.iht.com/articles/reuters/2008/07/23/business/OUKBS-UK-TATELYLE.php Thu, 24 Jul 2008 07:27:16 +0200 We couldn\'t fit all of the great video in the newscast from Alice Massimi\'s interview with Imperial Sugar CEO John Sheptor - watch the attached video for more of what he had to say. http://www.wsav.com/midatlantic/sav/news.apx.-content-articles-SAV-2008-07-23-0022.html Thu, 24 Jul 2008 07:27:16 +0200 t’s been almost six months since the deadly explosion at the Imperial Sugar Plant in Port Wentworth. http://www.wsav.com/midatlantic/sav/news.apx.-content-articles-SAV-2008-07-23-0020.html Thu, 24 Jul 2008 07:27:16 +0200 Angry sugar beet growers have sent a clear message to British Sugar that 2009 contract prices need to increase to nearer £30/t, otherwise many may not grow the crop next year. http://www.fwi.co.uk/Articles/2008/07/23/111314/sugar-beet-growers-call-for-30t-beet-price.html Thu, 24 Jul 2008 07:27:16 +0200 The sugar is going leave bitter test in days to come as sugarcane and sugar production in the state are likely to see substantial decline during forthcoming crushing season due to drought like situation in the state. http://www.business-standard.com/common/storypage_c_online.php?leftnm=10&bKeyFlag=IN&autono=43019 Thu, 24 Jul 2008 07:27:16 +0200 Industrial Biotechnology\'s new site features research and white papers, statistics and pricing data, industry news and links, along with management and partner information. http://newsblaze.com/story/2008072307200200001.ew/topstory.html Thu, 24 Jul 2008 07:27:16 +0200 The European Union’s sugar policy, in place since 1968, underwent its first major reform in 2005 in response to mounting and unsustainable imbalances in supply and demand. The reform, however, targeted only a few policy instruments (intervention price cut, voluntary production quota buyout, and restrictions on nonquota sugar exports), while leaving other key policies unchanged (interstate quota trading, sugar-substitute competition, and import barriers). Consequently, the extent of the reform’s impact is limited, compared with more far-reaching alternatives, particularly when the oligopolistic nature of the industry and its noncompetitive pricing behavior are taken into account. A model-based analysis suggests that the reforms by themselves are unlikely to induce price adjustments sufficient to reduce overproduction unless quotas and/or high tariffs are reduced. http://ers.usda.gov/Publications/ERR59/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 07:22:56 +0200 Spain\'s biggest-listed food producer Ebro Puleva said on Tuesday it had not received a 400 million euro ($637 million) offer for its sugar business from a government-controlled savings bank, as local media reported. http://www.reuters.com/article/mergersNews/idUSMDT00539820080722?rpc=401& Wed, 23 Jul 2008 07:22:56 +0200 A package worth in excess of €40 million has been made available under the Retroactive Restructuring Scheme to former sugar beet growers to help compensate for the closure of their industry. http://www.fiannafail.ie/article.phpx?topic=166&id=9299&nav=Local%20News Wed, 23 Jul 2008 07:22:56 +0200 ISLAMABAD, July 22: Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani on Tuesday asked sugar mills to pay last year’s crop dues to farmers on a priority basis. http://www.dawn.com/2008/07/23/ebr2.htm Wed, 23 Jul 2008 07:22:56 +0200 ISLAMABAD (July 23 2008): Sugar prices in the domestic market will continue to rise as sugar mill owners have started hoarding, creating artificial shortages of the commodity. This, they claim, is to ensure an adequate return on their investment, which is being compromised by rise in transport costs, a one percent increase in sales tax and a one percent levy of excise duty on sugar mill owners, well placed sources told Business Recorder. http://www.brecorder.com/index.php?id=774512&currPageNo=1&query=&search=&term=&supDate= Wed, 23 Jul 2008 07:22:56 +0200 After Butch Wilson sold his 700 shares in United States Sugar Corp. at the time of his October layoff, the computer specialist counted himself lucky to have exited before the stock sank 20 percent lower. http://www.miamiherald.com/business/story/614142.html Wed, 23 Jul 2008 07:22:56 +0200 Australia\'s production of raw sugar in 2008/09 could be hit by excessively wet weather and fall below official forecasts, the main grower organisation Canegrowers told Reuters on Tuesday. http://money.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=601757 Wed, 23 Jul 2008 07:22:56 +0200 The sugar factory being constructed in Mayuge district, 28km from Jinja town, is expected to employ over 1,000 people when it opens in February next year. http://allafrica.com/stories/200807210586.html Tue, 22 Jul 2008 07:26:02 +0200 The United States Sugar Corporation and the State of Florida are negotiating final sale of more than seventy-five thousand hectares of the company\'s land to the state. The land is north of America\'s famous Everglades National Park. The park is a protected wild area of wetlands sometimes called \"a biological treasure.\" http://www.voanews.com/specialenglish/2008-07-21-voa3.cfm Tue, 22 Jul 2008 07:26:02 +0200 OKEELANTA, Florida (Reuters) - A $1.75 billion land purchase deal Gov. Charlie Crist announced last month to save the Florida Everglades could also mark the beginning of the end for the state\'s powerful sugar barons. http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSN2147112120080722?feedType=RSS&feedName=scienceNews Tue, 22 Jul 2008 07:26:02 +0200 CLEWISTON — If U.S. Sugar Corp. isn\'t replaced with something equally viable, the towns and rural counties around Lake Okeechobee could be thrust into a 1930s-style economic depression, a Glades County commissioner said Monday. http://www.palmbeachpost.com/business/content/business/epaper/2008/07/21/a8b_sugartowns_0722.html Tue, 22 Jul 2008 07:26:02 +0200 Around 700 new jobs could be created at the former British Sugar site in Kidderminster and a satellite college or university may also be built on the land. http://www.expressandstar.com/2008/07/21/700-jobs-at-sugar-site/ Tue, 22 Jul 2008 07:26:02 +0200 The Government\'s aim is to produce 50 per cent of sugar requirement of the country by 2013. For this an accelerated programme to popularise sugar cane cultivation will be implemented, said Additional Secretary to the Ministry of Supplementary Crops Development Leela Dissanayake. http://www.dailynews.lk/2008/07/22/fea31.asp Tue, 22 Jul 2008 07:26:02 +0200 Maryborough Sugar Factory Ltd appointed James Frederick Hesp and William Brett Moller as directors on July 17, 2008. They hold no securities. http://www.businessspectator.com.au/bs.nsf/Article/Maryborough-Sugar-appoints-directors-GS4GX Tue, 22 Jul 2008 07:26:02 +0200 In a move that could help millions of farmers and bore a hole in the pockets of sugar producers, the Union Food Ministry has started work on a plan to do away with reservation of sugarcane area for mills. http://www.business-standard.com/common/news_article.php?leftnm=3&subLeft=1&chklogin=N&autono=329339&tab=r Tue, 22 Jul 2008 07:26:02 +0200 A High Court has ordered the development of a controversial $370 million sugar and biofuels project in Kenya\'s Tana River Delta, guaranteeing a temporal reprieve. http://www.afrol.com/articles/29874 Tue, 22 Jul 2008 07:26:02 +0200 As of 8:30 p.m., the southbound lanes of Highway 6 at the Southwest Freeway in Sugar Land remained closed as police and public works crews work to clear an overturned 18-wheeler and the load of molasses it spilled onto the roadway. http://www.fortbendnow.com/pages/full_story?page_label=news&id=115598&article-Clean-Up-Of-Molasses-Spill-Continues-In-Sugar-Land-%20=&widget=push&instance=home_news_bullets&open=& Tue, 22 Jul 2008 07:26:02 +0200 BOISE, Idaho - The recent 500,000-ton increase in the amount of sugar that U.S. companies can sell in America will have little immediate impact on Amalgamated Sugar Co. in Boise, said President and CEO Vic Jaro. http://www.agweekly.com/articles/2008/07/21/commodities/crop/crop37.txt Tue, 22 Jul 2008 07:26:02 +0200 Growing sugar beets brings a unique set of challenges. Growers and agribusiness representatives who want to get the latest information about sugar beet pests, weeds, diseases and fertility can attend the first Sugar Beet Diagnostic School Aug. 6 at the Michigan Sugar Blumfield Piling Ground and Research Station at the corner of M-46 and Gera Road in Saginaw. http://www.michiganfarmer.com/index.aspx?ascxid=fpStory&fpsid=34900&fpstid=2 Tue, 22 Jul 2008 07:26:02 +0200 In compliance with paragraph 3.63 of the Listings Requirements of the JSE Limited, notice is hereby given of the following dealings by a director of a major subsidiary company, Zambia Sugar Plc, in Illovo`s securities: http://www.sharenet.co.za/v3/sens_display.php?tdate=20080721161402&seq=2265 Tue, 22 Jul 2008 07:26:02 +0200 TIRUPATTUR: The State government, through the Electricity Board, has decided to set up cogeneration plants in 17 cooperative and public limited sugar mills across the State at an estimated cost of Rs.925 crore to generate electricity, Agriculture Minister Veerapandi S. Arumugam said here on Saturday. http://www.hindu.com/2008/07/20/stories/2008072054390500.htm Mon, 21 Jul 2008 08:49:27 +0200 The European Union (EU) is one of the leading sugar producers and traders in the world. This position was built over time through the application of protectionist policies that regulated production, prices, exports, and imports. Since its creation in 1968, the existing EU sugar policy—commonly referred to as the Common Market Organization (CMO) for sugar—had changed only marginally. In 2006, however, a new sugar regime took effect, largely influenced by three factors: tariff- and quotafree access to least developed countries (LDCs) beginning in 2009, which would likely result in increased sugar imports; enforcement of World Trade Organization (WTO) commitments; and the accession of 10 new member states to the EU in 2004, which exacerbated preexisting sugar supplyand- demand imbalances. http://www.sugarproducer.com/?pageID=10&newsID=1043 Mon, 21 Jul 2008 08:49:27 +0200 SUGAR growers have sent the NFU back to the negotiating table with British Sugar with renewed optimism to get a better price deal after a dramatic show of solidarity today (Friday, July 18). http://www.farmersguardian.com/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=20123&c=1 Mon, 21 Jul 2008 08:49:27 +0200 The European Union says it will make a decision in September or October on what to do with suspended aid support for the Fiji sugar industry. http://www.rnzi.com/pages/news.php?op=read&id=41000 Mon, 21 Jul 2008 08:49:27 +0200 Cherokee Investment Partners LLC, a Raleigh, N.C.-based private equity firm specializing in brownfield cleanup and sustainable redevelopment, highlights redevelopment of the former Imperial Sugar refinery property in its annual Sustainability Report (www.cherokeefund.com). http://www.bizjournals.com/houston/stories/2008/07/21/focus5.html?ana=from_rss Mon, 21 Jul 2008 08:49:27 +0200 TANA DELTA, Kenya - In a clearing on Kenya\'s coastal grasslands, a group of nomadic herders shout down government officials who have flown in from Nairobi to explain the benefits of a proposed US$350 million sugar project. http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/49409/story.htm Mon, 21 Jul 2008 08:49:27 +0200 BACOLOD CITY – About a thousand sugar planters in Negros Occidental joined a protest rally at the plaza here Saturday to express their indignation over the government’s continued inaction on the rising cost of fertilizers. http://www.philstar.com/archives.php?&aid=2008072036&type=2& Mon, 21 Jul 2008 08:49:27 +0200 THE wife of billionaire sugar and real estate kingpin Pepe Fanjul has a not-so-sweet little secret - one of her well-paid aides has close personal links to the Ku Klux Klan. http://www.nypost.com/seven/07192008/gossip/pagesix/sugar_baron_aides_kkk_link_120508.htm Mon, 21 Jul 2008 08:49:27 +0200 July 21 (Bloomberg) -- Australia\'s Queensland state, the world\'s largest coking coal shipper and the nation\'s biggest sugar producer, may get more than 100 millimeters (4 inches) of rain in the next few days in its coastal regions. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601081&sid=a9nATV4nodbQ Mon, 21 Jul 2008 08:49:27 +0200 PALM CITY — While details of negotiations between the state and U.S. Sugar Co. to purchase 187,000 acres of the Everglades are still under wraps, the sugar giant has hired a Martin County surveying and mapping firm to accurately establish the boundaries of the company\'s holdings. http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2008/jul/19/no-headline---19ssugar/?partner=yahoo_headlines Mon, 21 Jul 2008 08:49:27 +0200 THE sugar factory being constructed in Mayuge district, 28km from Jinja town, is expected to employ over 1,000 people when it opens in February next year. http://www.newvision.co.ug/D/8/17/640124 Mon, 21 Jul 2008 08:49:27 +0200 Things have been stirring lately in the sugar business. This month Tate & Lyle, a European food giant known for Golden Syrup, its venerable brand of sugar syrup, sold its international sugar-trading arm; the move followed its disposal of its sugar businesses in the U.S. http://www.thechronicleherald.ca/Business/1068564.html Mon, 21 Jul 2008 08:49:27 +0200 A Labasa man was rushed to hospital after a trailer filled with 2 to 3 tonnes of sugarcane fell on him yesterday. http://www.fijilive.com/news_new/index.php/news/show_news/6914 Mon, 21 Jul 2008 08:49:27 +0200 Mon, 21 Jul 2008 08:49:27 +0200 SUGAR LAND, Texas -- An overturned truck shutdown traffic on Highway 6 in Sugar Land on Thursday afternoon. http://www.myfoxhouston.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=7006762&version=2&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=3.2.1 Fri, 18 Jul 2008 07:37:50 +0200 Sardinia’s plans to aid Villasor sugar refinery have been stopped short by the European Commission. The aid had been meant to compensate Villasor for the losses it incurred during a drought in 2001-2002. State aid rules only allow for compensation in the event of drought to primary producers and not secondary plants like the refinery. Italy had meant to give €3.5 million to the plant after the drought caused a slump in sugar beet supplies on Sardinia. The Commission did not approve the aid because it determined that the drought of 2001-2002 was not an exceptional occurrence or natural disaster on the island. Italy did not give any aid to the refinery before the Commission reached its decision and so there is no obligation to recover aid. http://www.europolitics.info/xg/europolitique/politiquessectorielles/agriculture/231054?isPortalAccessed=true Fri, 18 Jul 2008 07:37:50 +0200 MUMBAI, July 17 (Reuters) - Indian sugar futures ended down on Thursday on profit-taking after a near 5 percent rise this week, and were helped lower by hopes the government may release extra supplies in the September quarter to control prices. http://in.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idINBOM25316920080717?rpc=401& Fri, 18 Jul 2008 07:37:50 +0200 A six-year package of measures worth €6.5 million has been introduced by the European Commission (EC) for the development of Tanzania\'s sugar sector so that it can complete globally, the EC has announced. http://www.afrol.com/articles/29846 Fri, 18 Jul 2008 07:37:50 +0200 The European Commission has introduced a six-year package of measures worth euro 6.5 million to develop Tanzania`s sugar sector, helping it to compete globally. http://www.ippmedia.com/ipp/guardian/2008/07/17/118656.html Fri, 18 Jul 2008 07:37:50 +0200 The Madhvani Group of Companies’ unveiling of a $60million (Shs110 billion) sugar project in Amuru District still hangs in the balance. The district chairman, Mr Anthony Omach, told Daily Monitor on Monday, that “as council, we are interested in the project. The investment is good for our people but let the masses decide.” http://www.monitor.co.ug/artman/publish/regional-special/Madhvani_s_sugar_project_in_balance_68397.shtml Fri, 18 Jul 2008 07:37:50 +0200 MACKAY Sugar is seeking to merge with the Proserpine Cooperative Mill, just days after Mackay shareholders endorsed the board\'s proposal to move from a cooperative structure to that of an unlisted public company. http://nqr.farmonline.com.au/news/state/agribusiness-and-general/general/mackay-sugar-looks-for-sweet-deal/813249.aspx Thu, 17 Jul 2008 07:54:57 +0200 Krajowa Spolka Cukrowa, the group of sugar plants which faces privatization, will sell lots worth several hundreds million zloty. http://www.pulsbiznesu.com.pl/Default2.aspx?ArticleID=e98acbd9-6647-46d0-9410-0f69c880f01d Thu, 17 Jul 2008 07:54:57 +0200 GOVERNMENT has been urged to stem rampant smuggling of sugar through secluded exit points in the Lowveld amid reports that an average of about 2 000 tonnes of the scarce commodity were being illegally smuggled each week mainly into Mozambique. http://allafrica.com/stories/200807160949.html Thu, 17 Jul 2008 07:54:57 +0200 The Mozambican government on Tuesday approved a large biofuel project, under which 18,000 hectares in Dombe, in the central province of Manica, will be planted with sugar cane for the production of ethanol. http://allafrica.com/stories/200807160900.html Thu, 17 Jul 2008 07:54:57 +0200 When Dr Evans Kidero, the man who turned around Mumias Sugar Company decided that growing sugar in Tana River District- where cane matures in half the time that it takes in Western Kenya- was viable, he was as excited as a golfer about to achieve a \"hole in a one\" shot. http://allafrica.com/stories/200807160442.html Thu, 17 Jul 2008 07:54:57 +0200 The Kakira Outgrowers Rural Development Fund has built science laboratories for Busedde College and Buyengo Secondary School, both in Jinja district. http://allafrica.com/stories/200807160316.html Thu, 17 Jul 2008 07:54:57 +0200 PARIS (Reuters) - Public support for biofuels is costly and has little impact in cutting greenhouse gas emissions so governments would do better promoting lower energy consumption to fight climate change, the OECD said on Wednesday. http://www.enn.com/energy/article/37665 Thu, 17 Jul 2008 07:54:57 +0200 SAO PAULO, Brazil, July 16 /PRNewswire/ -- The Brazilian Sugarcane Industry Association (UNICA) welcomes the OECD Report \"Economic Assessment of Biofuel Support Policies\" as another major report that highlights the benefits of sugarcane ethanol in terms of greenhouse gas reduction and urges governments to level the playing field by removing trade-distorting subsidies and tariffs. http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/07-16-2008/0004850473&EDATE= Thu, 17 Jul 2008 07:54:57 +0200 PERAMBALUR: The Dhanalakshmi Srinivasan Sugars Limited, (DSSL) the foundation for which was laid at Udumbiyam village near here, will start functioning from November 2009. http://www.hindu.com/2008/07/16/stories/2008071658840300.htm Wed, 16 Jul 2008 07:48:08 +0200 Danish food group Danisco said in a statement Monday it had agreed to sell its sugar refineries in Denmark, Finland, Germany and Lithuania to Germany\'s Nordzucker for about 5.6 billion Danish crowns or some 700 million euros. http://virtual.finland.fi/stt/showarticle.asp?intNWSAID=19229&group=Business Wed, 16 Jul 2008 07:48:08 +0200 The divestment of Danisco Sugar is the final step towards the transformation of Danisco into a focused, bio-based, market-driven ingredients provider. http://www.flex-news-food.com/pages/17787/Danisco/danisco-announces-sale-danisco-sugar-nordzucker-ag.html Wed, 16 Jul 2008 07:48:08 +0200 HONG KONG (Interfax-China) -- The Chinese subsidiary of British Sugar, British Sugar Overseas China (BSO China), has concluded an agreement with the government of Qiqihar City in northeastern China\'s Heilongjiang Province to invest RMB 900 million ($132.35 million) in sugar beet factories in the city, according to a Ministry of Commerce announcement on July 14. http://www.resourceinvestor.com/pebble.asp?relid=44387 Wed, 16 Jul 2008 07:48:08 +0200 Sugar Land, Texas, Jul. 15 - Imperial Sugar Company today announced that it has increased its ownership stake in Wholesome Sweeteners, Incorporated, and also acquired an option to purchase the remaining equity interest. Wholesome, an organic and natural sweetener company based in Sugar Land, Texas, was formed as a venture in 2001 between Imperial Sugar and Edward Billington & Son, a diversified agriculture and food company based in the United Kingdom. http://www.flex-news-food.com/console/PageViewer.aspx?page=17809&source=xml Wed, 16 Jul 2008 07:48:08 +0200 14 July, 2008 - Agrana Group and Studen & Co of Austria have just started production at a EUR 40 million sugar refinery plant in the Brcko area of Bosnia Herzegovina (BiH). http://www.flex-news-food.com/pages/17774/Bosnia/Sugar/bosnia-herzegovina-agrana-group-studen-open-150000-tonne-sugar-plant.html Wed, 16 Jul 2008 07:48:08 +0200 The sowing of over 6 000 hectares of sugar cane in Ciego de Ávila since January to June, endorses the interest of the Sugar sector to guarantee larger volumes to mill during the next harvest. http://www.invasor.cu/sistema/paginas/default.asp?lang=en&id=12072008_Sugar%20Cane%20Workers%20for%20a%20Better%20Production%20in%20Ciego%20de%20%C1vila Wed, 16 Jul 2008 07:48:08 +0200 Prime Minister Bruce Golding has announced that by the end of September this year, some $2.7 billion would be spent on a redundancy package for workers employed to the sugar industry. http://www.jis.gov.jm/officePM/html/20080714T090000-0500_15987_JIS__2_7_BILLION_REDUNDANCY_PACKAGE_FOR_SUGAR_WORKERS.asp Wed, 16 Jul 2008 07:48:08 +0200 Usman Bello, executive secretary, National Sugar Development Council (NSDC), says Nigeria spends $300 million (N351 billion) annually on the importation of sugar. http://www.businessdayonline.com/national/13026.html Wed, 16 Jul 2008 07:48:08 +0200