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February 2, 2015 Fox News

The Brazilian government agreed Monday with ethanol producers to increase the level of the sugar-based fuel in gasoline.

Starting Feb. 15, all gasoline sold in Brazil will have to contain at least 27 percent ethanol, up from the current minimum of 25 percent, as decided in a meeting between presidential chief of staff Aloizio Mercadante and leaders of the Unica…

February 2, 2015 Business Day, By Nick Hedley

DESPITE a collapse in the oil price and India raising an export subsidy, indications are that the world sugar market is about to shift into deficit territory for a few years, Illovo Sugar MD Gavin Dalgleish said on Friday.

With world supplies consistently surpassing demand for some years, sugar prices have been dented since reaching a 30-year…

February 1, 2015 Sucrose News

TANZANIA will not import sugar for domestic use during the 2014/15 fiscal year as advised by the Technical Advisory Committee on Sugar Importation which is under the Tanzania Sugar Board (TSB), the National Assembly was told on Friday.

Smuggling of sugar into the country, dumping of the sweetener in the local market meant for transit as well as industrial sugar being…

February 1, 2015 Sucrose News

The sugar industry has made a fresh pitch for extending the controversial export subsidy on raw sugar citing a three-fold jump in its debt burden from Rs 11,400 crore in 2008 to Rs 33,600 crore in 2013.

While the cabinet is expected to increase the subsidy to Rs 4,000 a tonne, from Rs 3,371 a tonne, next week, the powerful sugar lobby is also seeking a fresh loan…

February 1, 2015 Manila Standard Today, By Alena Mae S. Flores   

Ethanol production in the Philippines doubled to 222 million liters in 2014 from 114 million liters in 2013, following the entry of three new producers, the Sugar Regulatory Administration said.

SRA manager for policy and planning Rosemarie Gumera, however, said while there was a substantial increase in local production, national…