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Covering global trade issues, mergers and acquisitions, crop reports and more en-gb Fri, 17 May 2013 09:28:20 +0200 Copyright: (C) 2006 Wayne Jayes http://www.sugartech.co.za/ads/SEL120x60.gif http://www.sugartech.co.za/ Dangote Sugar Refinery Plc has pulled its investment from Algeria and is planning to make more acquisitions of local sugar farms to boost its backward integration programme and benefit from the Federal Government Sugar Master Plan. http://allafrica.com/stories/201305151171.html Fri, 17 May 2013 09:28:20 +0200 KENANA SUGAR PLANT, Sudan (Reuters) - Sudan\'s biggest sugar producer plans to export up to 50,000 tonnes of animal feedstock annually to Arab Gulf countries. http://news.yahoo.com/sudan-sugar-firm-export-animal-feed-gulf-113445254.html;_ylt=A2KJ2PYM2ZVREAcAqNjQtDMD Fri, 17 May 2013 09:28:20 +0200 WE CANNOT allow the sugar industry in Barbados to fall under, says Leader of the Opposition, Mia Mottley. http://www.barbadosadvocate.com/newsitem.asp?more=local&NewsID=30618 Fri, 17 May 2013 09:28:20 +0200 WILMAR International, the $20 billion group better known as a leading global palm-oil player, has almost overnight become a player to be reckoned with in the sugar market as well, prompting some observers to wonder whether it could find equal success in this sector. http://www.businesstimes.com.sg/premium/editorial-opinion/hock-lock-siew/wilmar-sugar-empire-next-20130517? Fri, 17 May 2013 09:28:20 +0200 The UP government has sold off scrap and other obsolete plant and machinery of a closed sugar mill at Rae Bareli, the land of which is to be used for establishing AIIMS-like institute, at more than Rs 9 crore. The previous BSP government had, meanwhile, sold land, building and plant and machinery of at least five similar mills at throwaway prices of less than Rs 5 crore each. - See more at: http://www.indianexpress.com/news/-/1116898/?#sthash.yGKFcXwt.dpuf http://www.indianexpress.com/news/-/1116898/? Fri, 17 May 2013 09:28:20 +0200 A South Sumatra court sentenced two environmental activists to seven months in prison for provoking a riot against a sugar plantation, despite a public outcry against the criminalization. http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/news/environmental-activists-punished-with-jail-time-for-riot-against-sugar-plantation/? Fri, 17 May 2013 09:28:20 +0200 Scientists are looking into mystery symptoms which are affecting sugar beet crops across parts of England. In some cases, up to 40 to 60% of the crop is affected. http://www.eadt.co.uk/business/farming/uk_suffolk_essex_mystery_symptoms_hitting_some_sugar_beet_crops_1_2196693 Fri, 17 May 2013 09:28:20 +0200 The European Commission said on Thursday it had carried out surprise inspections on several sugar companies on concerns they may have breached anti-trust rules. http://www.eubusiness.com/news-eu/food-sugar-business.olw? Fri, 17 May 2013 09:28:20 +0200 There\'s been another intriguing twist in the tension brewing in the sugar industry over the way raw sugar is sold. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-05-16/msf-signs-with-qsl-as-sugar-plot-thickens/4693802 Fri, 17 May 2013 09:28:20 +0200 Since the great recession, investors have been inundated with tips for turning losses into profit, ranging from gold to social media IPOs. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jack-roney/highprofit-food-companies_b_3271947.html Wed, 15 May 2013 08:50:48 +0200 Sugar production at Pan-Caribbean Ltd. comprising the privatised mills in Frome, Monymusk and Bernard Lodge reached no more than 54,000 tonnes in 2012/13 compared with 65,000 tonnes produced in the year before. http://www.agra-net.com/portal2/home.jsp?template=newsarticle&artid=20018044583&pubid=ag044 Wed, 15 May 2013 08:50:48 +0200 The Government has pledged to support companies that adopt clean production technologies, ensuring prudent use of natural resources and reduction in pollution. http://allafrica.com/stories/201305132065.html Wed, 15 May 2013 08:50:48 +0200 The Fiji Sugar Corporation believes cane farmers who are descendants of the Girmit system still make huge contributions to the sugar industry. http://www.fijivillage.com/?mod=story&id=14051345a45be0d2b09d9b864ad789 Tue, 14 May 2013 09:21:37 +0200 MACKAY Sugar has axed 35 staff positions as the organisation embarks on a \"significant cost reduction program\". http://www.qt.com.au/news/mackay-sugar-cutting-35-jobs/1862708/ Tue, 14 May 2013 09:21:37 +0200 Cristal Union of France is the successful bidder for a majority share in the Hellenic Sugar Industry (HSI). In April the Agriculture Bank of Greece announced the agreement to transfer more than 30 mln common shares to Cristal Financire, a subsidiary of the French Sugar Cooperative. Cristal Union had offered a principal of EUR40 mln for the stake. KSC of Poland and Litex Commerce of Bulgaria have been selected as \"stand by\" candidates, pending final approval of the sale. http://www.agra-net.com/portal2/home.jsp?template=newsarticle&artid=20018044577&pubid=ag044 Tue, 14 May 2013 09:21:37 +0200 Nairobi will on Monday host the second India sugar expo which targets to show case products, technologies and services suitable for the African sugar industry. http://allafrica.com/stories/201305130195.html? Tue, 14 May 2013 09:21:37 +0200 The EU has pledged around US$8 million (6.16m) to assist Tanzanian sugar exporters in complying with EU standards. http://www.agra-net.com/portal2/home.jsp?template=newsarticle&artid=20018044943&pubid=ag002 Tue, 14 May 2013 09:21:37 +0200 IRATE sugarcane farmers from Busia county have faulted governor Sospeter Ojaamong over his declaration to remove zoning in sugarcane farming. The farmers said the move might destroy the sugar industry as it happened with the cotton industry. http://allafrica.com/stories/201305131393.html Tue, 14 May 2013 09:21:37 +0200 A HORDE of professional golfers are today expected to start arriving in the country ahead of this week\'s Zambia Sugar Open Golf championship scheduled to tee off on Thursday May 16 to Sunday 19 at the Lusaka Golf Club. http://allafrica.com/stories/201305130950.html Tue, 14 May 2013 09:21:37 +0200 Mumias Sugar Company has closed operations for its annual routine factory maintenance. http://allafrica.com/stories/201305080723.html Thu, 09 May 2013 09:03:50 +0200 THE European Union says it will commit another $69million to improve the sugar industry this year. http://www.fijitimes.com/story.aspx?id=233369 Thu, 09 May 2013 09:03:50 +0200 Zimbabwe has encountered a massive drop in sugar production following the Chisumbanje ethanol plant which in recent years resulted in thousands of hactres being haphazardly converted into plantations for the purposes of fuel production. http://www.zimeye.org/?p=80496&cpage=1 Thu, 09 May 2013 09:03:50 +0200 MASVINGO Zimbabwe\'s sugar production levels are likely to fall due to the unavailability of water for irrigation following another poor rainy season that has seen some dams\' water levels falling drastically, stakeholders have said. http://www.newsday.co.zw/2013/05/08/zim-sugar-output-likely-to-decline/ Thu, 09 May 2013 09:03:50 +0200 The sugar industry stakeholders are to meet soon to decide on the commencement of the 2013 cane harvesting and crushing season. http://www.fbc.com.fj/fiji/10021/cane-harvesting-season-announcement-pending Thu, 09 May 2013 09:03:50 +0200 REELECTONIST Senator Koko Pimentel vowed on Tuesday that he will support socio-economic programs for sugar industry dependents, particularly skills training for children of sugarcane farm workers. http://www.sunstar.com.ph/bacolod/local-news/2013/05/08/koko-vows-support-sugar-industry-281360 Thu, 09 May 2013 09:03:50 +0200 NATIONALIST People\'s Coalition (NPC) gubernatorial bet Vice Governor Genaro Alvarez Jr. and his runningmate Eugenio Lacson are backing the Sugarcane Industry Development Bill of third district Representative Albee Benitez in anticipation of the implementation of zero tariff on imported sugar under the Asean Free Trade Agreement (AFTA) in 2015. http://www.sunstar.com.ph/bacolod/local-news/2013/05/06/alvarez-lacson-back-benitez-s-sugarcane-bill-280985 Tue, 07 May 2013 09:25:29 +0200 The sugar industry stakeholders are to meet soon to decide on the commencement of the 2013 cane harvesting and crushing season. http://www.fbc.com.fj/fiji/10021/cane-harvesting-season-announcement-pending Tue, 07 May 2013 09:25:29 +0200 The screening of Brown Sugar Too Bitter For Me in Georgetown last week marks not only the release of the latest work in the building of a Guyanese film industry, but the third attempt to treat issues and struggles in the sugar industry in a movie. This film continues to reveal a number of the imperfections that still accompany the noble efforts at national cinematography, although it nevertheless has to be regarded as an achievement. Despite limitations it is a contribution that can be taken seriously. Not all the previous efforts fall in that category. http://www.stabroeknews.com/2013/features/sunday/05/05/brown-sugar-is-a-serious-contribution-despite-limitations/ Tue, 07 May 2013 09:25:29 +0200 Serbia\'s raw sugar industry is gearing up for stronger competition with rivals in Europe as the country\'s access to the EU sugar market is expected to improve significantly in the coming years. http://www.balkans.com/open-news.php?uniquenumber=173948 Tue, 07 May 2013 09:25:29 +0200 Sugarcane farmer in Busoga region (central eastern Uganda) are stranded with sugarcane after the factory where they were to sell the crops failed kick off sugar production Farmers from the districts of Namutumba , Kaliro and parts of Luuka all in Busoga region told the East African Business Week that their cane was supposed to be harvested after 18 to 22 months ago. http://allafrica.com/stories/201305062238.html Tue, 07 May 2013 09:25:29 +0200 SUGARCANE farmers in Kakamega are planning to demonstrate against the move by Kakamega governor Wycliffe Oparanya to live in Mumias Sugar Company\'s managerial estate. http://allafrica.com/stories/201305030891.html Mon, 06 May 2013 07:49:27 +0200 The Taraba government in partnership with the Dangote Group of Companies will soon establish a sugar processing company in Lau Local Government Area of the state. http://allafrica.com/stories/201305030415.html Mon, 06 May 2013 07:49:27 +0200 Sugar revenue for millers in Thailand, the world\'s second-biggest exporter, is falling faster than shipments as the strengthening baht erodes incomes and prices for the commodity extend declines. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-04-29/sugar-mills-in-thailand-battle-strengthening-baht-as-prices-drop.html Mon, 06 May 2013 07:49:27 +0200 The Islamic Corporation for Development of the Private Sector (ICD) has announced plans to invest $372m into building a mega sugar production facility in Egypt, Arab News has reported. Other shareholders of Al-Nouran Sugar include the Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development, the Egyptian Sugar & Integrated Industries Co, and Al-Nouran Multitrading, a private sector sugar trading house in Egypt. The project involves the construction of a new sugar production facility in Al-Sharkia governorate and the acquisition of an affiliated beet agricultural company. Production will reduce Egypt\'s reliance on imported sugar by 25% from the current one million tonnes annually, while exports of by-products will generate savings to the balance of payments of up to about $250m annually. The project is expected to be completed by Q4 2015. http://www.ameinfo.com/egypt-372m-sugar-plant-340065? Mon, 06 May 2013 07:49:27 +0200 EATON - The population of Eaton swelled up to nearly twice its size on Sunday when communities from all over northern Colorado came to say goodbye to a century\'s old building. http://www.9news.com/rss/article/334514/222/Old-sugar-factory-comes-crumbling-down? Mon, 06 May 2013 07:49:27 +0200 Williamsburg was a hot spot Tuesday night when guests gathered at the former Domino Sugar Factory on Kent Street for the annual Creative Time gala honoring Julian Schnabel, who took his pregnant fiance, May Andersen. The old plant is now owned by Creative Time co-chair Jed Walentas, who plans to turn the cavernous space into offices, as part of an 11-acre development including apartments. Here\'s hoping Antonio Reynoso can afford one. He\'s running for the City Council seat in Williamsburg to replace Diana Reyna, who\'s leaving due to term limits and for whom Reynoso is chief of staff. Reynoso told us at the gala he just moved in with his sister after living with his mother for years, because he can\'t afford his own place in the neighborhood. He also revealed, I recently sold my car, so I ride a bike around. Reynoso mingled with art dealers, architects, developers and celebrities, including Andre Balazs, Marisa Tomei, Arden Wohl, Stella Schnabel and Luke Janklow. http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/sweet_time_at_sugar_plant_LUrcdh9qpsKqu6oz30GjPI? Mon, 06 May 2013 07:49:27 +0200 The Taraba government in partnership with the Dangote Group of Companies will soon establish a sugar processing company in Lau Local Government Area of the state. The acting governor of the state, Alhaji Garba Umar, disclosed this at an interactive session with journalists on Thursday in Jalingo. http://dailytrust.com.ng/index.php/business/53614-taraba-dangote-to-establish-sugar-factory-in-lau? Fri, 03 May 2013 08:01:36 +0200 The European Central Bank has given the euro a boost with its moves to lower interest rates and get credit flowing throughout the monetary union. We hope Europe\'s leaders won\'t let the sugar high distort their view of the monumental changes still required to ensure the currency\'s longer-term survival. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-05-02/ecb-sugar-hit-doesn-t-change-euro-s-long-term-challenges.html? Fri, 03 May 2013 08:01:36 +0200 FranceAgriMer raised its 2012/13 sugar production estimate in its April projection to 4.631 million tonnes, white value, from 4.611mt a month earlier and compared with 5.192mt in 2011/12. http://www.agra-net.com/portal2/home.jsp?template=newsarticle&artid=20018042943&pubid=ag002 Fri, 03 May 2013 08:01:36 +0200 Khartoum On a tour to some States, ambassador of Britain, Mr. Peter Tibber Peter visited the states of White Nile and Sennar and Gezira , according to the press release issued by the embassy in Khartoum. http://allafrica.com/stories/201305021447.html Fri, 03 May 2013 08:01:36 +0200 Masvingo Bureau Nearly 150 prospective sugar cane farmers in Chiredzi have accused Tongaat Hullet of deliberately stalling the development of 4 000 hectares of virgin land in the Lowveld into sugar cane plantations. http://allafrica.com/stories/201305020140.html Fri, 03 May 2013 08:01:36 +0200 A total of $ 372 million is being invested into building a mega sugar production facility. It is expected to produce and refine more than 500,000 metric tons of sugar annually. http://en-maktoob.news.yahoo.com/372-m-sugar-production-facility-wins-icd-support-001300215.html Fri, 03 May 2013 08:01:36 +0200 Kiwi brand Cane Fields is transforming the New Zealand retail sugar market with the introduction of re-sealable, ziplock packaging for its 750g range. The brands ziplock technology is a first for the New Zealand sugar industry, and replaces traditional 1 May 2013 http://business.scoop.co.nz/2013/05/01/ziplock-bags-set-to-revolutionise-kiwi-sugar-market/ Fri, 03 May 2013 08:01:36 +0200 South Africa\'s sugar sector has called for the protection of the local industry from excessive imports, according to the Executive Director of the South African Sugar Association (SASA), Trix Trikam. http://www.agra-net.com/portal2/home.jsp?template=newsarticle&artid=20018042195&pubid=ag044 Fri, 03 May 2013 08:01:36 +0200 Kenana, Sudan\'s biggest sugar producer, plans to raise around $200 million in an initial public offering in Johannesburg next year, its managing director said. http://www.tradearabia.com/news/MISC_234945.html? Mon, 29 Apr 2013 09:19:15 +0200 KHARTOUM: Kenana, Sudan\'s biggest sugar producer, plans to raise around $ 200 million in an initial public offering in Johannesburg next year, its managing director said. Mohamed El-Mardi El-Tegani said Kenana wanted to raise around $200 million. The firm, which is mainly owned by the governments of Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Sudan, has appointed Russia-focused Renaissance Capital and Dubai investment bank Shuaa Capital to manage the offering. http://arabnews.com/news/449806? Mon, 29 Apr 2013 09:19:15 +0200 ADDIS ABABA: A saline lake in Ethiopia that\'s baffled scientists by its 15-fold growth threatens to spill into the nation\'s longest river and damage plans by Africa\'s biggest coffee grower to become a commodities powerhouse. http://www.gulftoday.ae/portal/bf11b615-7f0e-4271-9fc9-5b15cf893d39.aspx? Mon, 29 Apr 2013 09:19:15 +0200 KHARTOUM: Kenana, Sudan\'s biggest sugar producer, plans to more than triple its ethanol output within two years to become a major biofuel exporter and intends to make a stock market offering in South Africa, its managing director said. http://thepeninsulaqatar.com/business/234778-sudan-sugar-firm-plans-biofuel-expansion.html? Mon, 29 Apr 2013 09:19:15 +0200 An end to sugar quotas in the European Union, expected by the EU Council as early as 2017, may promote trade of the sweetener within Africa as Ethiopia and Nigeria plan to raise output, said Ecobank Transnational Ltd. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-04-19/europe-sugar-quota-ban-may-raise-african-trade-ecobank-says-2-.html Mon, 22 Apr 2013 08:25:13 +0200 The abolition of levy sugar and monthly release mechanism will reduce the infamous cyclicality in the sugar industry, and benefit all stakeholders alike. http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/opinion/columns/sugar-policy-just-turned-sweeter/article4591430.ece?homepage=true Mon, 22 Apr 2013 08:25:13 +0200 Tableland Canegrowers last week ditched MSF Sugar in favour of Mackay Sugar Limited because it wanted its sugar sold through QSL. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-04-22/qld-sugar-touts-new-industry-marketing-plan/4643306? Mon, 22 Apr 2013 08:25:13 +0200 Almost all sugar mills in our country are owned by rich politicians and their family members. Cane crushing season in Sindh has ended a long time back, but growers are, as usual, yet to be paid their dues against sugar cane supplied to the mills. http://pakobserver.net/detailnews.asp?id=204471 Mon, 22 Apr 2013 08:25:13 +0200 Faced with numerous challenges in the period immediately following their acquisition of the Long Pond Sugar Factory the owners, Everglades Farms Limited, have weathered the storm and are now looking for good times. http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20130421/news/news2.html? Mon, 22 Apr 2013 08:25:13 +0200 According to the government\'s Centre for the Promotion of Agriculture (CEPAGRI), cited in the daily newspaper Noticias, this is most sugar Mozambique has ever exported. http://www.thezimbabwean.co.uk/news/africa/65139/mozambique-sugar-exports-reach-record.html Mon, 22 Apr 2013 08:25:13 +0200 Chichigalpa Association for Life (ASOCHIVIDA), the most representative organization of persons with chronic renal insufficiency (CRI) of the country, recently ratified its commitment to continue the dialogue process established with Nicaragua Sugar Estates Limited (NSEL), a company of Grupo Pellas. http://argentina.indymedia.org/news/2013/04/836256.php? Mon, 22 Apr 2013 08:25:13 +0200 The European Union must guarantee sugar supplies for the bloc\'s refiners after quotas end because the cost of importing raw sweetener from preferential countries is at a 10-month high, according to Tate & Lyle Sugars. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-04-17/tate-lyle-urges-eu-to-guarantee-sugar-supplies-as-costs-soar.html Mon, 22 Apr 2013 08:25:13 +0200 VASSAR, MI Last year, an early spring meant early planting and a record season for many sugar beet growers. http://www.mlive.com/business/mid-michigan/index.ssf/2013/04/flooding_leaves_great_lakes_ba.html Mon, 22 Apr 2013 08:25:13 +0200 Nzoia Sugar Company has paid Sh1.04 billion arrears owed to farmers for sugarcane delivered between July 2012 and February. http://allafrica.com/stories/201304181603.html Mon, 22 Apr 2013 08:25:13 +0200 A sugarcane tractor driver for the Trans Mara Sugar Company was swept away by floods as he crossed the Keyian river yesterday morning. http://allafrica.com/stories/201304181587.html Mon, 22 Apr 2013 08:25:13 +0200 Harvesting of sugarcane begins next week in the Lowveld and is expected to continue until December, an official said yesterday. http://allafrica.com/stories/201304181117.html Mon, 22 Apr 2013 08:25:13 +0200 Neglected so far, the allied activities of sugarcane crushing are set to gain a major share of fresh investments due to the immense potential opened by the partial decontrol in sugar sales and 30 per cent increase in ethanol prices. Sugar mills, it is estimated, would be planning around Rs 4,000 crore of fresh investment to add 79,000 tonnes of fresh cane crushing capacity, for which commercial production is scheduled to commence by the end of 2014. http://www.business-standard.com/article/markets/sugar-mill-byproducts-to-attract-more-investment-113041801198_1.html Mon, 22 Apr 2013 08:25:13 +0200 A group of far north Queensland cane growers has snubbed its own mill by agreeing to send cane to a rival milling group after a stoush over the way sugar is sold. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-04-18/sugar-deal-not-so-sweet-for-msf/4637306 Mon, 22 Apr 2013 08:25:13 +0200 FARGO, N.D. - The 51st edition of the International Sugarbeet Institute called upon Howard Dahl, one of the founders of Amity Technology, a leading manufacturer of sugarbeet harvesters, to provide a glimpse as to where he feels the sugarbeet industry will be five years from now. http://www.minnesotafarmguide.com/news/crop/sugarbeet-industry-takes-a-peek-into-the-future/article_09c39db8-a792-11e2-a487-001a4bcf887a.html Mon, 22 Apr 2013 08:25:13 +0200 With prices sugar producers receive hovering around 20 cents a pound, there\'s talk on the national level of the possibility of sugar forfeitures. http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/business/florida-sugar-companies-wont-be-forfeiting-on-loan/nXPdD/ Mon, 22 Apr 2013 08:25:13 +0200 WASHINGTON, April 17, 2013 - The Brazil sugar industry receives about $2.5 billion annually in direct payments and indirect assistance from its government while controlling 50 percent of the global market share of sugar exports, according to a report released today by the American Sugar Alliance. http://www.agri-pulse.com/Subsidies-heavily-inflate-Brazilian-sugar-industry,-report-says-04172013.asp Mon, 22 Apr 2013 08:25:13 +0200 Amid a wide-spread looming scarcity of sugar in the country, the Tanzanian Government has impounded 28.5 tonnes of Malawi sugar that was reportedly smuggled into that country last year. Tanzania\'s Deputy Minister for Agriculture, Food Security and Cooperatives, Adam Malima, told the Tanzania National Assembly in Dodoma, ==23 tonnes of sugar were impounded at Mbeya http://www.nyasatimes.com/2013/04/22/tanzania-impounds-28-tonnes-of-illegal-malawi-sugar/ Mon, 22 Apr 2013 08:25:13 +0200 An Omani company and Britain\'s Tate & Lyle Sugars, part of American Sugar Holdings (ASR Group), has signed an agreement with Oman\'s port of Sohar to build a $200m sugar refinery there. http://www.arabianbusiness.com/oman-firm-uk-s-tate-lyle-plan-200m-sugar-refinery-497946.html?#.UWzzI73h7tw Tue, 16 Apr 2013 08:47:51 +0200 Oman Sugar Refinery Co (OSRC), a newly formed special purpose vehicle (SPV) company, has announced the sultanate\'s first sugar refinery is to be set up with an investment of $200m at the Port of Sohar, Muscat Daily has reported. The refinery, which will have the capacity to produce 1mn tonnes of refined sugar per year, is to be built in two phases, and will produce Omani branded products for local, regional and international markets, said OSRC. http://www.ameinfo.com/oman-commission-sugar-mill-2015-337762? Tue, 16 Apr 2013 08:47:51 +0200 n Omani company and Britain\'s Tate & Lyle Sugars, part of American Sugar Holdings (ASR Group), have signed an agreement with Oman\'s port of Sohar to build a $200 million sugar refinery there. http://www.tradearabia.com/news/IND_234074.html? Tue, 16 Apr 2013 08:47:51 +0200 SINGAPORE, April 16 (Reuters) - Singapore\'s Wilmar International Ltd said it has acquired a 27.5 percent stake in Cosumar S.A., Morocco\'s sole sugar supplier, for 2.3 billion Moroccan dirhams ($263 million), expanding its sugar operations into Africa. http://finance.yahoo.com/news/wilmar-buys-27-5-pct-004656027.html;_ylt=A2KJ3CdP8mxRnhoAuhzQtDMD Tue, 16 Apr 2013 08:47:51 +0200 Singapore - Singapore\'s Wilmar International Ltd said it has acquired a 27.5 percent stake in Cosumar S.A., Morocco\'s sole sugar supplier, for 2.3 billion Moroccan dirhams ($263-million), expanding its sugar operations into Africa. http://www.iol.co.za/business/international/wilmar-buys-stake-in-sugar-firm-1.1500791?#.UWzy-73h7tw Tue, 16 Apr 2013 08:47:51 +0200 GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) -- Union workers in North Dakota, Minnesota and Iowa who have been locked out of their jobs for 20 months at American Crystal Sugar Co. approved a new contract Saturday. http://finance.yahoo.com/news/american-crystal-sugar-workers-approve-022121333.html;_ylt=A2KJ3CdP8mxRnhoAwhzQtDMD Tue, 16 Apr 2013 08:47:51 +0200 Now that one of Minnesota\'s longest labor disputes has ended, union members and workers who replaced them for more than 20 months at American Crystal Sugar face a daunting challenge: http://www.startribune.com/business/203126391.html Tue, 16 Apr 2013 08:47:51 +0200 Shareholders are advised that earnings per share and headline earnings per share for the financial year ended 31 March 2013 are expected to be between 40% and 45% higher than for the year ended 31 March 2012. http://www.moneyweb.co.za/moneyweb-industrials/illovo-sugar-sees-fy-heps-40--45-higher?sn=2009+Detail Tue, 16 Apr 2013 08:47:51 +0200 Kampala, Uganda The government has approved a request by Eskom, to allow a higher intake of the Nile waters for generating electricity at Jinja in eastern Uganda. http://allafrica.com/stories/201304152384.html Tue, 16 Apr 2013 08:47:51 +0200 ILONGGO senatorial bet Juan Miguel \'Migz\' Zubiri reiterated the relevance of the use of biofuels which, he said, is the top saving grace for the sugar industry in Negros by 2015 when tariffs for sugar will reach the lowest level http://www.sunstar.com.ph/bacolod/local-news/2013/04/12/zubiri-pushes-biofuels-save-sugar-industry-277228 Tue, 16 Apr 2013 08:47:51 +0200 The abolition of levy sugar and monthly release mechanism will reduce the infamous cyclicality in the sugar industry, and benefit all stakeholders alike. http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/opinion/columns/sugar-policy-just-turned-sweeter/article4591430.ece Tue, 09 Apr 2013 09:05:17 +0200 Dangote Sugar Refinery (DSR) Plc has hailed the international price for sugar for its tremendous improvement in turnover and level of production of sugar in the country. http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/dangote-sugar-turnover-surges-as-international-price-dips/144438/? Tue, 09 Apr 2013 09:05:17 +0200 ALGIERS (Reuters) - Algerian refiner Cevital\'s white sugar exports roughly doubled to 60,000 tonnes a month in 2012 and it expects a 20 percent increase this year, its owner and chief executive said on Monday. http://news.yahoo.com/algerias-cevital-sugar-exports-rise-20-pct-2013-152256907--finance.html;_ylt=A2KJ3CR6vGNRYF8AX6rQtDMD Tue, 09 Apr 2013 09:05:17 +0200 Business at the Trans Mara Sugar Company came to a standstill yesterday after workers downed their tools demanding the improvement of their working conditions and the increase of their salaries. http://allafrica.com/stories/201304081627.html Tue, 09 Apr 2013 09:05:17 +0200 The Executive Secretary of the National Sugar Development Council, Dr. Latif Busari, has revealed that Nigeria will soon start production of sugar to the tune of 1.7 million tonnes. http://allafrica.com/stories/201304080223.html Tue, 09 Apr 2013 09:05:17 +0200 Tinderet Member of Parliament Julius Meli has protested over failure by a leading cane miller, Chemelil Sugar Company to pay farmers for deliveries for the last two years. http://allafrica.com/stories/201304080007.html Tue, 09 Apr 2013 09:05:17 +0200 Tinderet Member of Parliament Julius Meli has protested over failure by a leading cane miller, Chemelil Sugar Company to pay farmers for deliveries for the last two years. http://allafrica.com/stories/201304080007.html Mon, 08 Apr 2013 08:46:23 +0200 NZOIA Sugar Company has this week paid out Sh160 million to contracted out-grower farmers for cane deliveries made to the factory between last November and February this year, the Star established yesterday. http://allafrica.com/stories/201304060651.html Mon, 08 Apr 2013 08:46:23 +0200 The exploitation of Nigeria\'s rich potentials in agriculture, solid minerals as well as oil and gas is the major thrust of Nigerian Industrial Revolution Plan being formulated by the Federal Ministry of Trade and Investment. The renewed interest in the three sectors, according to Mr Olusegun Aganga, the Honourable Minister of Trade and Investment, is due to the fact that they possess competitive and comparative advantages for value addition activities which had hitherto not been fully harnessed. http://allafrica.com/stories/201304060267.html Mon, 08 Apr 2013 08:46:23 +0200 Bumula MP Boniface Otsiula has told farmers contracted to Mumias Sugar Company to stage a cane delivery boycott over delayed payment for the last six months. http://allafrica.com/stories/201304051578.html Mon, 08 Apr 2013 08:46:23 +0200 Tawila Residents of Tawila locality in North Darfur said shortage in fuel is leading to rising prices of potable water and grains, as their supply is dependent on the product\'s availability. http://allafrica.com/stories/201304050212.html Mon, 08 Apr 2013 08:46:23 +0200 THE creation, strength and weaknesses of our middle class have all been heavily steered by Barbados\' intricate history with slavery. http://www.barbadosadvocate.com/newsitem.asp?more=local&NewsID=29990 Mon, 08 Apr 2013 08:46:23 +0200 Union workers at American Crystal Sugar, who have been locked out of their jobs for 20 months, will vote for the fifth time on essentially the same contract on April 13. http://www.startribune.com/business/200920901.html?refer=y Mon, 08 Apr 2013 08:46:23 +0200 Chisumbanje GREEN Fuel resumed operations at its ethanol plant here yesterday, raising prospects that the country could soon start the mandatory blending of fuel that has been on the cards for sometime. http://allafrica.com/stories/201303260975.html Wed, 27 Mar 2013 07:59:00 +0200 The Rwandan and Mauritius business communities are set to promote trade and investment ties as Mauritians eye the continental market. \"We decided to come to Kigali to strengthen trade and relationships between the two countries and economic relations between the business communities,\" pointed out Chamroo Dev, the CEO of Enterprise Mauritius, a public company that aims to promote export. http://allafrica.com/stories/201303260212.html Wed, 27 Mar 2013 07:59:00 +0200 The government will start work towards revamping the Komenda sugar factory in the Central Region by July, the country\'s Minister of Trade and Industry, Haruna Iddrisu, said. http://www.agra-net.com/portal2/home.jsp?template=newsarticle&artid=20018034068&pubid=ag044 Wed, 27 Mar 2013 07:59:00 +0200 While its proposal to deregulate the sugar industry is yet to get Cabinet approval, the Food Ministry on Tuesday allowed sugar mills to sell 10.4 million tonnes of sugar in the open market from April to September. http://www.indianexpress.com/news/mills-can-sell-10.4-mt-sugar-in-open-market-govt/1093876/ Wed, 27 Mar 2013 07:59:00 +0200 The government of India has been flip-flopping on the issue of decontrol of the sugar industry. It is paradoxical that a major industry like sugar is yet to be a beneficiary of liberalization that began way back in the 90s. http://indiancooperative.com/sugar/minister-raises-hope-of-sugar-de-control/ Wed, 27 Mar 2013 07:59:00 +0200 One of the country\'s biggest sugar companies has opened a cogeneration facility that uses waste from its processes to produce enough electricity to meet one-third of Mackay City\'s power needs, as well as supply steam and electricity to its own mill and sugar refinery. http://www.international.to/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=7942:sugar-company-has-opened-a-cogeneration-facility-that-uses-waste&catid=258:science&Itemid=375 Wed, 27 Mar 2013 07:59:00 +0200 Sixth-form students at The Manning\'s School in Westmoreland think the Government should use sports tourism as the engine to drive economic growth in light of the uncertain future of sugar. http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20130326/lead/lead3.html Wed, 27 Mar 2013 07:59:00 +0200 HAVANA: Cuban raw sugar production is 17 percent behind schedule toward a target of 1.7 million tonnes, official media said over the weekend, putting in doubt hopes to increase output 20 percent over the previous season. http://www.brecorder.com/markets/commodities/america/112313-cuba-says-sugar-harvest-is-17pc-behind-schedule.html Wed, 27 Mar 2013 07:59:00 +0200 ELY sugar beet farmer Trevor Bedford met with Euro MEP Geoffrey Van Orden this week to discuss his concerns about reform to the Common Agricultural Policy. http://www.elystandard.co.uk/news/ely_farmer_meets_mep_to_discuss_sugar_beet_reform_1_1992254 Wed, 27 Mar 2013 07:59:00 +0200 Farmers may reconsider plans for sowing sugar beets in 2013 and reduce the area by 40% because of low sugar prices, the President of the Ukrainian Agrarian Confederation, Leonid Kozachenko, said. http://www.agra-net.com/portal2/home.jsp?template=newsarticle&artid=20018034078&pubid=ag044 Wed, 27 Mar 2013 07:59:00 +0200 THE Kisumu High Court was yesterday urged to charge with contempt one of the parties in a civil suit involving Miwani Sugar Company. The sugar company\'s lawyer, Dave Otieno, said that Nagendra Saxena and Crossley Holdings should be found in contempt for refusing to comply with orders that it deposits in court, a title deed of the land where the company is situated. http://allafrica.com/stories/201303250590.html Tue, 26 Mar 2013 08:27:00 +0200 TANGAKONA villagers residing closer to the West Kenya Sugar company\'s weighbridge at Tangakona in Busia County have expressed concern over misbehavior by the sugar miller\'s employees manning the cane weighing center. http://allafrica.com/stories/201303250557.html Tue, 26 Mar 2013 08:27:00 +0200 WEST Kenya Sugar Company has moved to court seeking to overturn a directive by Kenya Sugar Board stopping it from the construction of a cane-buying center in Nyando sugar belt in South Nyanza. http://allafrica.com/stories/201303250530.html Tue, 26 Mar 2013 08:27:00 +0200 Menongue The Angolan Audit Court, Julio Antnio, Thursday in Mengongue, southeastern Kuando Kubango province, said that the Longa Farm is a response to the Government programme to reduce imports, create food self-sufficiency, contribute to the growth of the Gross Domestic Product and reduce the export balance deficit. http://allafrica.com/stories/201303220929.html Tue, 26 Mar 2013 08:27:00 +0200 A group of war veterans last week besieged Masvingo Governor and Resident Minister Titus Maluleke\'s offices demanding the speedy redistribution of sugar cane plots in the Lowveld. http://allafrica.com/stories/201303250467.html Tue, 26 Mar 2013 08:27:00 +0200 Cut by cut, the forced budget reductions known as the sequester are beginning to affect millions of Americans. http://www.thestate.com/2013/03/26/2693592/hiaasen-big-sugars-subsidy-how.html? Tue, 26 Mar 2013 08:27:00 +0200 HAVANA: Cuban raw sugar production is 17 percent behind schedule toward a target of 1.7 million tonnes, official media said over the weekend, putting in doubt hopes to increase output 20 percent over the previous season. http://www.brecorder.com/markets/commodities/america/112313-cuba-says-sugar-harvest-is-17pc-behind-schedule.html Tue, 26 Mar 2013 08:27:00 +0200 South Africa\'s Sugar Association is in talks with the country\'s government about using bagasse, a by-product from sugarcane, to generate power and help stem a shortage of electricity in the country. http://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/196/475/91088.html Tue, 26 Mar 2013 08:27:00 +0200 THE Kisumu High Court was yesterday urged to charge with contempt one of the parties in a civil suit involving Miwani Sugar Company. The sugar company\'s lawyer, Dave Otieno, said that Nagendra Saxena and Crossley Holdings should be found in contempt for refusing to comply with orders that it deposits in court, a title deed of the land where the company is situated. http://allafrica.com/stories/201303250590.html Tue, 26 Mar 2013 08:25:57 +0200 TANGAKONA villagers residing closer to the West Kenya Sugar company\'s weighbridge at Tangakona in Busia County have expressed concern over misbehavior by the sugar miller\'s employees manning the cane weighing center. http://allafrica.com/stories/201303250557.html Tue, 26 Mar 2013 08:25:57 +0200 WEST Kenya Sugar Company has moved to court seeking to overturn a directive by Kenya Sugar Board stopping it from the construction of a cane-buying center in Nyando sugar belt in South Nyanza. http://allafrica.com/stories/201303250530.html Tue, 26 Mar 2013 08:25:57 +0200 Menongue The Angolan Audit Court, Julio Antnio, Thursday in Mengongue, southeastern Kuando Kubango province, said that the Longa Farm is a response to the Government programme to reduce imports, create food self-sufficiency, contribute to the growth of the Gross Domestic Product and reduce the export balance deficit. http://allafrica.com/stories/201303220929.html Tue, 26 Mar 2013 08:25:57 +0200 A group of war veterans last week besieged Masvingo Governor and Resident Minister Titus Maluleke\'s offices demanding the speedy redistribution of sugar cane plots in the Lowveld. http://allafrica.com/stories/201303250467.html Tue, 26 Mar 2013 08:25:57 +0200 Cut by cut, the forced budget reductions known as the sequester are beginning to affect millions of Americans. http://www.thestate.com/2013/03/26/2693592/hiaasen-big-sugars-subsidy-how.html? Tue, 26 Mar 2013 08:25:57 +0200 Tue, 26 Mar 2013 08:25:57 +0200 Tue, 26 Mar 2013 08:25:57 +0200 PRESIDENT-elect Uhuru Kenyatta has promised to revive the collapsed factories at the Coast.Uhuru, who visited the Kwale International Sugar Company yesterday said the Coast region has the potential to contribute to the county\'s economic stability. http://allafrica.com/stories/201303221158.html Mon, 25 Mar 2013 08:16:11 +0200 Jakarta White sugar prices hit a record in Indonesia last summer and further spikes are expected this year even though the world is awash with the sweetener. The main cause, say critics, is a small group of traders known in the industry as sugar samurai. http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/300901/economy/opinion/indonesian-sugar-samurai-in-control-of-industry? Mon, 25 Mar 2013 08:16:11 +0200 Two years ago giant biotech seed companies, especially Monsanto, were predicting doom and gloom. They warned of soaring food prices and shortages if the USDA did not take action to allow farmers to plant sugar beet crops using genetically modified seeds manufactured by, you guessed it, Monsanto. http://www.examiner.com/article/the-amazing-power-grab-of-gmo-seed-companies-section-735 Mon, 25 Mar 2013 08:16:11 +0200 FARGO, N.D. - The 51st edition of the International Sugarbeet Institute called upon Howard Dahl, one of the founders of Amity Technology, a leading manufacturer of sugarbeet harvesters, to provide a glimpse as to where he feels the sugarbeet industry will be five years from now. http://www.farmandranchguide.com/sugarbeet-industry-takes-a-peek-into-the-future/article_0f3fa642-9324-11e2-8cf8-0019bb2963f4.html Mon, 25 Mar 2013 08:16:11 +0200 Sixth-form students at the Mannings School in Westmoreland blasted successive governments for their failure to properly manage the local sugar industry, which is now facing an uncertain future. However, they were divided over whether or not its viability can be restored. http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20130322/lead/lead5.html Mon, 25 Mar 2013 08:16:11 +0200 All estates are showing signs of poor labour turnout. In the year 2012 the industry showed the factories standing idle, out of cane and not grinding, during the first and second crops a total of 10,527 hours. The actual time the factories worked during the year was 21,623 hours. This means that due to an acute shortage of labour to cut the cane the factories were standing idle 50% of the time during the crops waiting for the cane to be delivered, needless to say that during a substantial part of this time the factory\'s workers had to be paid for standing by doing nothing. http://www.stabroeknews.com/2013/opinion/letters/03/22/very-dismal-performance-at-all-sugar-estates-in-2012-but-especially-at-skeldon-flagship/ Mon, 25 Mar 2013 08:16:11 +0200 In February 2013 the Competition Authority cleared the takeover of Hellenic Sugar Industry SA by Sunoko doo, subject to structural and behavioural measures. Hellenic Sugar is the only producer of sugar in Greece which also owns two sugar production plants in Serbia. Sunoko, on the other hand, is a producer of sugar in Serbia, part of MK Group, a vertically integrated producer of agricultural products and also has various other activities related to agricultural production. The authority prohibited the takeover at first, but clearance was issued on a second attempt. http://www.internationallawoffice.com/newsletters/detail.aspx?g=c7b030b5-3456-4926-a12b-c5755a2bd0f0 Fri, 22 Mar 2013 09:16:24 +0200 SUGARCANE growers in the country will have another reason to smile next week after the Sugar Industry Tribunal announced the third cane payment for the 2012 season yesterday. http://www.fijitimes.com/story.aspx?id=228535 Fri, 22 Mar 2013 09:16:24 +0200 President-elect Uhuru Kenyatta and his Deputy William Ruto have promised to invest in productive farming and revive collapsed industries. http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/?articleID=2000079777&story_title=Kenya-Kenya:%20Uhuru%20vows%20to%20revive%20sugar%20firms Fri, 22 Mar 2013 09:16:24 +0200 The sugar industry is set to invest R20bn in \'green\' electricity production over the next five years to ease pressure on a sector under threat from cheap imports and distorted world prices. http://www.legalbrief.co.za/article.php?story=20130319104933369 Fri, 22 Mar 2013 09:16:24 +0200 Sugar Industry Development Minister Lakshman Seneviratne yesterday said the government has taken measures to cultivate sugar cane in 2,000 hectares by the end of this year and increase it to 4,000 by 2014 to reduce the expenditure on sugar imports, which is nearly Rs 65,000 million a year. http://www.dailynews.lk/2013/03/22/pol07.asp? Fri, 22 Mar 2013 09:16:24 +0200 Right here in America, under our collective nose, there is an industry that survives on political patronage and government subsidies, that regularly receives mysterious and untraceable bailouts funded by taxpayers, that is disproportionately influential in Washington as a result of its massive lobbying efforts, and that is making huge profits at the expense of ordinary consumers. http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/03/occupy-sugar-a-movement-whose-time-has-come.html? Fri, 22 Mar 2013 09:16:24 +0200 Sugar trading house Czarnikow has raised its estimate for the global sugar surplus in 2012/13 to 9.1 million tonnes, raw value, from the 7.8mt it forecast in November. http://www.agra-net.com/portal2/home.jsp?template=newsarticle&artid=20018033258&pubid=ag002 Fri, 22 Mar 2013 09:16:24 +0200 ACTING President Joice Mujuru yesterday ordered that the Chisumbanje Ethanol plant be open for operations by Monday next week. http://allafrica.com/stories/201303200427.html Thu, 21 Mar 2013 07:30:08 +0200 THE Fiji Sugar Corporation expects to rake in a further $30.5million from sales when the third shipment of the 2012 season departs our shores for London next week. http://www.fijitimes.com/story.aspx?id=228522 Thu, 21 Mar 2013 07:30:08 +0200 BELLE GLADE The Sugar Cane Growers Cooperative of Florida has just wrapped up its 2012-2013 harvest, producing the seventh-largest crop in its 51-year history. http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/business/sugar-cooperative-completes-its-harvest/nWyYq/? Thu, 21 Mar 2013 07:30:08 +0200 KENYA\'S raw sugar production is forecast to rise 5% to 520,000 tonnes in 2013, helped by good weather and a bigger supply of cane that matured late last season, data from the industry regulator showed. http://www.agra-net.com/portal2/pl/home.jsp?template=newsarticle&artid=20018032833&pubid=ag047 Thu, 21 Mar 2013 07:30:08 +0200 County manager Martin Riordan is being urged to put forward a case for a proposed national beet factory to be built on a former Army firing range. http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/push-to-locate-sugar-factory-on-former-army-range-226034.html? Thu, 21 Mar 2013 07:30:08 +0200 It was almost two decades ago that the Florida Legislature passed the Everglades Forever Act, enshrining the state\'s commitment to restore the incomparable River of Grass. http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/opinion/os-ed-big-sugar-everglades-20130320,0,5175134.story? Thu, 21 Mar 2013 07:30:08 +0200 President-elect Uhuru Kenyatta and his Deputy William Ruto have promised to invest in productive farming and revive collapsed industries. http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/?articleID=2000079777&story_title=Kenya-Kenya:%20Uhuru%20vows%20to%20revive%20sugar%20firms Thu, 21 Mar 2013 07:30:08 +0200 A sub-contractor in the Tendaho Sugar Factory project is suing for 26 million Br for services it has rendered; twice the amount suggested by mediators to the factory. http://allafrica.com/stories/201303200071.html Wed, 20 Mar 2013 12:09:15 +0200 The last of the season\'s beet was sliced at the world\'s largest beet sugar factory at Wissington, near Downham Market on March 8. http://www.eadt.co.uk/business/farming/east_anglia_end_of_sugar_beet_campaign_comes_as_relief_to_farmers_1_1982992 Wed, 20 Mar 2013 12:09:15 +0200 Global conference organizer, CMT announces the 9th SugarWorld ASIA Summit to be held in Yangon on April 28-30, 2013. Put together with industry leaders, the summit examines global sugar landscape, role of Asia in the trade, and the opportunities that follow. http://news.yahoo.com/yangon-host-cmt-9th-sugarworld-asia-focusing-sugar-023044240.html? Wed, 20 Mar 2013 12:09:15 +0200 20 March 2013 - South Africa\'s Sugar Association is in talks with the country\'s government about using bagasse, a by-product from sugarcane, to generate power and help stem a shortage of electricity in the country. http://www.esi-africa.com/node/16110 Wed, 20 Mar 2013 12:09:15 +0200 The sugar industry is now working under a new plan after the Deloitte Report reform agenda concluded in December 2012. http://www.fbc.com.fj/fiji/8938/new-sugar-plan-for-2013 Wed, 20 Mar 2013 12:09:15 +0200 AUDITORS from the Sugar Cane Growers Council and Sugar Industry Tribunal are finalising preparations for the third cane payment for the 2012 season. http://www.fijitimes.com/story.aspx?id=228436 Wed, 20 Mar 2013 12:09:15 +0200 FARGO, N.D. Sugar prices have plummeted from a year ago, and that is already having its effect on sugar beet cooperative stock prices and stock joint venture markets. http://www.grandforksherald.com/event/article/id/259225/group/homepage/ Wed, 20 Mar 2013 12:09:15 +0200 The Minister of Trade and Industry, Haruna Iddrisu, says government will start work towards the revamping of the Komenda Sugar Factory in the Central Region, by July this year. http://www.gbcghana.com/index.php?id=1.1304117 Wed, 20 Mar 2013 12:09:15 +0200 New Delhi, March 7: Dalmia Bharat Sugar Industries Ltd is doubling the crushing capacity of its plant in Kolhapur to 5,000 tonnes crushed per day (tcd) by end-December. http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/industry-and-economy/agri-biz/dalmia-bharat-sugar-to-invest-rs-210-cr-to-double-kolhapur-unit-capacity/article4484563.ece?homepage=true&ref=wl_home Thu, 14 Mar 2013 09:50:32 +0200 BUNDABERG cane farmers Joe and Coral Zunker are \"very, very proud\" their farming company Redtrail Pty Ltd has taken out the district champion for the sixth year running at the annual Bundaberg Sugar Industry Productivity Achievement Awards. http://www.news-mail.com.au/news/celebrate-2012-was-good-for-growers/1790594/ Thu, 14 Mar 2013 09:50:32 +0200 As a person who loves sugar, I think about it all the time. However, since diabetes runs in my family, most of my thoughts are about how to avoid it. http://blog.seattlepi.com/boomerconsumer/2013/03/13/sugar-politics-heat-up/ Thu, 14 Mar 2013 09:50:32 +0200 SUGAR industry stakeholders have unveiled plans to plant 9000 hectares of new cane over three years in an effort to increase production by 500,000 tonnes. http://www.fijitimes.com/story.aspx?id=227642 Thu, 14 Mar 2013 09:50:32 +0200 Fiji will be hosting the 13th African Caribbean and Pacific countries and Least Developed Countries (ACP/LDC) Ministerial meeting on Sugar on 14 October. http://fijilive.com/news/2013/03/fiji-to-host-acp-sugar-meet-in-october/52856.Fijilive? Thu, 14 Mar 2013 09:50:32 +0200 The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) reached a settlement with Amalgamated Sugar Company LLC (Amalgamated Sugar) for failing to properly report the release of dangerous chlorine gas at its Paul, Idaho facility. Amalgamated Sugar, a sugar manufacturing facility that processes sugar beets, will pay $18,000 in penalties. http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/d0cf6618525a9efb85257359003fb69d/39067a8384ce376c85257b2d0054d0ed!OpenDocument? Thu, 14 Mar 2013 09:50:32 +0200 Justice Milton Tingling on Monday struck down Mayor Bloomberg\'s sugary soda size restrictions as arbitrary and capricious, and it\'s hard to argue with his reasoning on purely legal grounds. The ban contained more holes than the doughnuts on the racks at Dunkin\'. Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/hammering-big-sugar-article-1.1286645#ixzz2NUxZmgh9 http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/hammering-big-sugar-article-1.1286645?localLinksEnabled=false Thu, 14 Mar 2013 09:50:32 +0200 The U.S. Department of Agriculture is considering buying 400,000 tons of sugarenough for 142 billion Hershey\'s Kissesto stave off a wave of defaults by sugar processors that borrowed $862 million under a government price-support program. http://finance.yahoo.com/news/big-sugar-set-sweet-bailout-234800763.html;_ylt=A2KJ2Ui3fkFRQA4A6g7QtDMD Thu, 14 Mar 2013 09:50:32 +0200 The Minister of Trade announced recently that Nigeria had been losing about N568 billion yearly to importation of brown sugar, representing 98 per cent of brown sugar consumed in the country. http://allafrica.com/stories/201303120195.html Thu, 14 Mar 2013 09:50:32 +0200 The Minister of Trade announced recently that Nigeria had been losing about N568 billion yearly to importation of brown sugar, representing 98 per cent of brown sugar consumed in the country. http://allafrica.com/stories/201303120195.html Tue, 12 Mar 2013 08:51:28 +0200 Sugar decontrol is on the cards. The least that is likely to happen is the abolition of levy system\' (compulsory procurement of sugar at below-market prices) and withdrawal of the free-sale quotas. http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/opinion/columns/g-chandrashekhar/sugar-sector-needs-holistic-policy/article4482299.ece Tue, 12 Mar 2013 08:51:28 +0200 Florida\'s sugar growers say they really, really, really want to save what\'s left of the Everglades. They mean it right up until the time comes to really, really, really save what\'s left of the Everglades. http://www.bradenton.com/2013/03/12/4430780/big-sugar-mounts-new-attack-on.html Tue, 12 Mar 2013 08:51:28 +0200 New Delhi,March 4: Sugar production has begun to decline due to lower cane availability in Maharashtra and Karnataka, resulting in early closure of factories for the 2012-13 season. http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/industry-and-economy/agri-biz/lower-cane-supplies-from-maharashtra-karnataka-hit-sugar-output/article4475783.ece?ref=wl_industry-and-economy Tue, 12 Mar 2013 08:51:28 +0200 Government has received a disbursement of approximately TT$80.4m in the form of grant funding through the European Development Assistance Programme. http://i955fm.com/80-4m-grant-for-tt-food-industry/ Tue, 12 Mar 2013 08:51:28 +0200 Thailand\'s 2012/13 sugarcane crush continues to make strong progress as total sugar production reached 8.195 mln tonnes, raw value, as of March 10, up 1.1% from 8.107 mln produced by the same time last year, industry data showed. http://www.agra-net.com/portal2/home.jsp?template=newsarticle&artid=20018030559&pubid=ag044 Tue, 12 Mar 2013 08:51:28 +0200 When Cristin Couzens went on the hunt for evidence that Big Sugar had manipulated public opinion, she had no idea what she was doing. She was a dentist, not an investigative reporter. But she couldn\'t let go of the nagging suspicion that something was amiss. http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/story/2013/03/08/f-vp-crowe-big-sugar.html Tue, 12 Mar 2013 08:51:28 +0200 Cristal Union Group said it strengthened its position as the EU\'s fifth-largest sugar producer in the 2012/13 beet campaign which showed good agricultural and industrial performance and a successful integration of the plants previously operated by Groupe Vermandoise and Sucrerie de Bourdon. http://www.agra-net.com/portal2/home.jsp?template=newsarticle&artid=20018030647&pubid=ag044 Tue, 12 Mar 2013 08:51:28 +0200 Moves are afoot to revive the Irish sugar industry but it will take a lot of knocking of heads together, writes Joe Dermody http://www.irishexaminer.com/business/beet-ireland-tries-to-sweeten-the-deal-for-sugar-farmers-225074.html? Mon, 11 Mar 2013 08:19:44 +0200 LAHORE The sugar mills have paid about 86 per cent of total amount to Rs77.18 billion to cane growers in Punjab while rest of about Rs13 billion will be paid to the farmers by mid of this month, industry sources said. http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/03/nigeria-spent-620m-on-sugar-importation-in-2012/? Mon, 11 Mar 2013 08:19:44 +0200 New Delhi, March 7: Dalmia Bharat Sugar Industries Ltd is doubling the crushing capacity of its plant in Kolhapur to 5,000 tonnes crushed per day (tcd) by end-December. http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/industry-and-economy/agri-biz/dalmia-bharat-sugar-to-invest-rs-210-cr-to-double-kolhapur-unit-capacity/article4484563.ece?homepage=true&ref=wl_home Mon, 11 Mar 2013 08:19:44 +0200 The Federal government has assured investors in the sugar industry of adequate protection on their investments through effective implementation of the National Sugar Master Plan (NSMP). http://leadership.ng/nga/articles/49695/2013/03/10/fg_assures_investors_sugar_sector_protection.html Mon, 11 Mar 2013 08:19:44 +0200 When Cristin Couzens went on the hunt for evidence that Big Sugar had manipulated public opinion, she had no idea what she was doing. She was a dentist, not an investigative reporter. But she couldn\'t let go of the nagging suspicion that something was amiss. http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/story/2013/03/08/f-vp-crowe-big-sugar.html Mon, 11 Mar 2013 08:19:44 +0200 TALLAHASSEE The sugar industry won a round Thursday in the long fight over Everglades restoration, when a House panel approved extending a tax on growers that environmentalists say will leave South Florida taxpayers paying most of the cleanup cost. http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/news/state-regional-govt-politics/sugar-growers-win-house-vote-on-everglades-polluti/nWkZH/ Mon, 11 Mar 2013 08:19:44 +0200 A House committee unanimously approved legislation Thursday backed by the powerful sugar industry that extends a $25-per-acre tax on growers for Everglades restoration, but which environmentalists say puts the largest share of cleanup costs on South Florida taxpayers. http://www.postonpolitics.com/2013/03/sugar-wins-first-round-of-cleanup-fight/ Mon, 11 Mar 2013 08:19:44 +0200 Mon, 11 Mar 2013 08:19:44 +0200 Sugar decontrol is on the cards. The least that is likely to happen is the abolition of levy system\' (compulsory procurement of sugar at below-market prices) and withdrawal of the free-sale quotas. http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/opinion/columns/g-chandrashekhar/sugar-sector-needs-holistic-policy/article4482299.ece Fri, 08 Mar 2013 07:31:14 +0200 ISLAMABAD - Economic Committee of the Cabinet, country\'s highest forum for economic decision-making, has decided to allow export of 1.2 million tonnes of surplus stocks of sugar in the country. http://www.khaleejtimes.com/displayarticle.asp?xfile=data/international/2013/March/international_March269.xml&section=international&col= Fri, 08 Mar 2013 07:31:14 +0200 TALLAHASSEE The sugar industry won a round Thursday in the long fight over Everglades restoration, when a House panel approved extending a tax on growers that environmentalists say will leave South Florida taxpayers paying most of the cleanup cost. http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/news/state-regional-govt-politics/sugar-growers-win-house-vote-on-everglades-polluti/nWkZH/? Fri, 08 Mar 2013 07:31:14 +0200 Nairobi Evans Kidero of the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) was on Thursday declared the Nairobi governor-elect, trouncing his main rival Ferdinand Waititu of The National Alliance (TNA). Kidero who is the immediate former CEO of Mumias Sugar garnered 692,483 votes against Waititu\'s 617,839 votes. http://allafrica.com/stories/201303071544.html Fri, 08 Mar 2013 07:31:14 +0200 MPULUNGU Harbour Corporation Limited last year, recorded about 123,000 tonnes of exports into the Great Lakes Region representing a turn-over of KR4.6 million. http://allafrica.com/stories/201303060798.html Thu, 07 Mar 2013 08:22:59 +0200 Cela At least 60 billion Kwanzas is the necessary amount for dynamisation of Procana project, in Cela Municipality, Central Kwanza-Sul Province, for sugar cane production stopped since 2010, due to lack of financing, Angop has learnt. http://allafrica.com/stories/201303060359.html Thu, 07 Mar 2013 08:22:59 +0200 A lobbying campaign by the food and drink industry and by farmers\' groups is under way in the European Parliament ahead of a plenary vote next week (13 March) on sugar quotas. http://www.europeanvoice.com/article/imported/lobbying-intensifies-ahead-of-vote-on-sugar-quotas/76582.aspx? Thu, 07 Mar 2013 08:22:59 +0200 New Delhi,March 4: Sugar production has begun to decline due to lower cane availability in Maharashtra and Karnataka, resulting in early closure of factories for the 2012-13 season. http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/industry-and-economy/agri-biz/lower-cane-supplies-from-maharashtra-karnataka-hit-sugar-output/article4475783.ece?ref=wl_industry-and-economy Thu, 07 Mar 2013 08:22:59 +0200 LONDON and LAUSANNE, Switzerland, March 4, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Kingsman, a specialist provider of sugar and biofuels information and analytics and a unit of Platts, today announced the expansion of its suite of price references for the global sugar market to include nearly a dozen outright price assessments for raw and white sugar exported from Brazil, Thailand and the European Union. http://www.4-traders.com/THE-MCGRAW-HILL-COMPANIES-13525/news/The-McGraw-Hill-Companies-Inc-Kingsman-Launches-New-Outright-Price-Assessments-for-Raw-and-White-16436878/ Thu, 07 Mar 2013 08:22:59 +0200 LONDON and LAUSANNE, Switzerland, March 4, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Kingsman, a specialist provider of sugar and biofuels information and analytics and a unit of Platts, today announced the expansion of its suite of price references for the global sugar market to include nearly a dozen outright price assessments for raw and white sugar exported from Brazil, Thailand and the European Union. http://finance.yahoo.com/news/kingsman-launches-outright-price-assessments-110700141.html;_ylt=A2KJ3Cb0lTVRQ1wAmA7QtDMD Tue, 05 Mar 2013 08:56:25 +0200 MANILA, Philippines - The Sugar Regulatory Administration (SRA) and the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) signed a memorandum of agreement (MOA) to open 29 sugar block farms across Visayas and Mindanao this year. http://www.rappler.com/business/23023-29-sugar-block-farms-eyed-in-vismin Tue, 05 Mar 2013 08:56:25 +0200 The expansion of the Wonji Shoa Sugar Factory undertaken by the Ethiopian government at a cost of three billion Br in Oromia Regional State will begin trial production next month. The factory, which has the capacity to crush 6,250tn of sugarcane and produce 7,000ql of sugar daily, rests on 20,000ha of land. http://allafrica.com/stories/201303050048.html Tue, 05 Mar 2013 08:56:25 +0200 Nairobi, Kenya A diplomatic row is brewing between Kenya and Zambia following a decision by the later to slap an import ban on all Kenyan products. http://allafrica.com/stories/201303042298.html Tue, 05 Mar 2013 08:56:25 +0200 KENYAN authorities have finally cleared more than ten trucks carrying Zambian sugar destined for that country which were marooned at Namanga on the Tanzanian border after a three-week delay, Commerce, Trade and Industry Permanent secretary Stephen Mwansa has confirmed. http://allafrica.com/stories/201303041067.html Tue, 05 Mar 2013 08:56:25 +0200 A sugar milling company has partnered with an American investment firm to purchase one of the largest cane farms in Mackay in North Queensland http://www.abc.net.au/rural/news/content/201303/s3703451.htm? Tue, 05 Mar 2013 08:56:25 +0200 Forty years after the disappearance of the old London docks, there still stands, on the Thames, one last, giant working survivor. The great ships still bring it their cargoes up the river, just as they always have, from former colonies and faraway tropics. The massive dockside cranes still swing to unload those ships, just as they always have. And for a local working-class community that never really recovered from the demise of the docks, it still employs nearly a thousand East Enders, just as it always has, in Britain\'s worst unemployment blackspot. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/9904266/The-EUs-sugar-ruling-thats-left-a-bitter-taste-at-Tate-and-Lyle.html Tue, 05 Mar 2013 08:56:25 +0200 ZAMBIAN and Kenyan authorities need to get to the bottom of the issue surrounding sugar exports to that East African country. http://allafrica.com/stories/201302260589.html Thu, 28 Feb 2013 07:30:43 +0200 In a finding certain to put new pressure on the purveyors of sugary foods and drinks, a worldwide analysis shows that regardless of its effect on obesity, the ebb and flow of sugar in a country\'s diet strongly influences the diabetes rate there. http://www.latimes.com/health/la-sci-sugar-diabetes-20130228,0,373620.story Thu, 28 Feb 2013 07:30:43 +0200 Sugar is behind the global explosion in type 2 diabetes, say researchers who claim it plays a uniquely damaging role in causing a disease that experts fear could overwhelm the NHS. http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/feb/27/sugar-obesity-type-2-diabetes? Thu, 28 Feb 2013 07:30:43 +0200 Sugar prices in the European Union, the world\'s largest importer, are unlikely to fall for now because of import duties and rising prices from traditional suppliers, according to Tate & Lyle Sugars. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-02-27/eu-sugar-prices-seen-by-tate-remaining-high-for-now-on-duty-1-.html Thu, 28 Feb 2013 07:30:43 +0200 The EU sugar market is \'broken\' and is delivering windfall profits to the beet sugar while unfairly discriminating against cane refiners, in the opinion of Gerald Mason, Vice-President for EU Affairs at Tate & Lyle Sugars. http://www.agra-net.com/portal2/home.jsp?template=newsarticle&artid=20018028158&pubid=ag002 Thu, 28 Feb 2013 07:30:43 +0200 Feb 27 (Reuters) - Mumias Sugar warned pretax profits would tumble by at least a quarter in its full fiscal year to end-June 2013 after drought hurt its cane output and earnings in the first six months. http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/27/kenya-mumias-warning-idUSL6N0BRCID20130227?rpc=401&feedType=RSS&feedName=rbssConsumerGoodsAndRetailNews&rpc=401 Thu, 28 Feb 2013 07:30:43 +0200 THE National Federation of Sugarcane Planters (NFSP) urged Wednesday the Sugar Regulatory Administration (SRA) to investigate the importation of high fructose corn syrup from China that was reportedly sourced from genetically-modified corn. http://www.sunstar.com.ph/bacolod/local-news/2013/02/28/sugar-regulatory-body-told-probe-hfcs-importation-270472 Thu, 28 Feb 2013 07:30:43 +0200 More than 400 American Crystal Sugars workers in North Dakota who are locked out in a contract dispute are eligible for unemployment benefits, the state Supreme Court said in a ruling issued released Tuesday. http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/supreme-court-sugar-workers-benefits-18603201 Wed, 27 Feb 2013 07:12:59 +0200 The Port of Bundaberg will have to be dredged before it can reopen to commercial shipping. http://www.abc.net.au/rural/news/content/201302/s3699391.htm? Wed, 27 Feb 2013 07:12:59 +0200 SAVANNAH, Ga. The Justice Department has decided it won\'t seek criminal charges against Imperial Sugar or its executives years after explosions tore through its sugar refinery near and killed 14 workers, a federal prosecutor in Georgia said Tuesday. http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/prosecutor-no-charges-against-execs-in-ga-imperial-sugar-refinery-that-killed-14-workers/2013/02/26/01ac009a-8067-11e2-a671-0307392de8de_story.html? Wed, 27 Feb 2013 07:12:59 +0200 Imperial Sugar has run the regulatory gauntlet in the five years since explosions and molten fires fueled by sugar dust laid waste to the Port Wentworth plant and ultimately claimed the lives of 14 employees. http://savannahnow.com/news/2013-02-26/imperial-sugar-no-prosecution#.US2U25bh7tw Wed, 27 Feb 2013 07:12:59 +0200 NEW DELHI: MawanaSugars, one of the pioneers of branding in the commodity market, has approached the Board for Industrial and Financial Reconstruction (BIFR) for a revival plan after losses eroded more than half of the company\'s net worth. The losses were inevitable after \"illogical\" government policies made the sugar business unviable, a top company official said. http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/markets/commodities/mawana-sugars-moves-to-board-for-industrial-and-financial-reconstruction-for-a-revival-package/articleshow/18703128.cms Wed, 27 Feb 2013 07:12:59 +0200 Sugar production Mauritius - Sugar production in Mauritius has declined, from 435,509 in 2011 to 409,200 tons in 2012, according to the Ministry of Agro-industry and Food Security. http://www.afriquejet.com/201302262646/Mauritius-Sugar-production-declines-in-Mauritius.html Wed, 27 Feb 2013 07:12:59 +0200 SEAOIL Philippines Inc. is eyeing a joint venture with sugarcane planters to set up a three-legged factory somewhere in Murcia and Bago, where it can produce sugar, ethanol and electric power. http://www.sunstar.com.ph/bacolod/local-news/2013/02/26/sugar-mill-ethanol-electric-power-eyed-270143 Wed, 27 Feb 2013 07:12:59 +0200 SUGARCANE farmers will soon be paid according to the content of sugar extracted from their sugar cane in contrast to the present practice of payment as per tonnage of cane produced. http://www.fijitimes.com/story.aspx?id=226284 Wed, 27 Feb 2013 07:12:59 +0200 THE sugar industry is still heavily politicised at farm level and this needs to be immediately addressed for sugarcane farming to improve and to retain committed growers. http://www.fijitimes.com/story.aspx?id=226318 Wed, 27 Feb 2013 07:12:59 +0200