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February 10, 2016 Sugaronline | http://goo.gl/GJvGXP

The U.S. Agriculture Department (USDA) on Tuesday hiked its forecast for sugar imports by the country's cane refiners by more than one-quarter, as sweetener companies take advantage of U.S. prices trading well above global levels, according to Reuters.

The U.S. government again lowered its outlook for domestic…

February 10, 2016 Sugaronline | http://goo.gl/wDgA7R

Engineers from Iowa State University have developed a technique to create biorenewable nylon from sugar using a genetically modified strain of yeast and a form of hybrid catalysis, according to the UK's The Engineer.

The conversion process is described in the journal Angewandte Chemie International Edition.…

February 9, 2016 Sugaronline | http://goo.gl/3COSsP

Argentina said on Friday it was increasing the required blend of ethanol in gasoline to 12% from the current 10%, a change that will boost the South American country's production of the biofuel by 20%, according to Reuters.

The additional ethanol would be exclusively derived from sugar, President Mauricio Macri…

February 8, 2016 Martinne Geller (Reuters) | http://goo.gl/R8PtCT

2016 could be the year of the sugar tax, as several large nations consider levies on sweetened food and drinks to battle obesity and fatten government coffers.

For years, public health advocates have called for such measures as one prong of an attack against a growing obesity epidemic that has fueled…

February 8, 2016 Sugaronline | http://goo.gl/mTpQDw

Despite the decline in world market prices for raw sugar, improved marketing strategies were making headways in securing the best possible price for locally produced sweetener, says Fiji Sugar Corporation executive chairman Abdul Khan, according to the Fiji Times newspaper.

"When we look at the price of sugar…