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February 4, 2016 Sugaronline | http://goo.gl/rIXP1C

Around 328.8 million litres of ethanol has been approved for sugar mills in Maharashtra in a recent tender floated by oil marketing companies (OMCs), according to India’s Financial Express. 

This is perhaps the first time that 53 sugar factories that have ethanol plants in the state have come forward to bid for…

February 4, 2016 Sugaronline | http://goo.gl/gYgLjM

The Bureau of Customs (BOC) filed smuggling charges before the Department of Justice (DOJ) against two firms for the alleged illegal importation of refined sugar, misdeclared as bitumen, worth PHP33 million (US$689,459), according to the Philippines’ ABS CBN News.

Bitumen is an oil-based substance used for road…

February 4, 2016 Visayan Daily Star | http://goo.gl/q795A7

The Sugar Regulatory Administration has allocated P25.9 million for nationwide cloudseeding operations sourced through its Climate Change Project, SRA Administrator Ma. Regina Martin said yesterday.

For Negros and Panay alone, P7.4 million was allotted by the agency, for a total of 60 hours each, or at an…

February 3, 2016 Sugaronline | http://goo.gl/V5pwZg

Substantial new refining capacity for sugar coming onstream in the Middle East in the next few years is far in excess of forecast consumption, the head of Bahrain's Arabian Sugar Refinery said on Wednesday, according to Reuters.

"It is difficult to understand the logic behind two new refining facilities with…

February 2, 2016 Sugaronline | http://goo.gl/UbRujC

Both India and China hold the key to price volatility for 2016 and 2017 with production seen as the main uncertainty, reports Sugaronline.

El Niño impacts will determine whether India will continue to be a net exporter while for China the weather phenomenon will determine just how big an importer it will be.