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September 28, 2015EconoTimes | http://goo.gl/3s6m1u

In the most active contract with a March 2016 maturity date, raw sugar increased by 4.6% in price to 12.4 US cents per pound on Friday. As the week drew to a close, the raw sugar price was given a considerable boost by the latest Brazilian sugar production figures from the Brazilian Sugarcane Industry Association (Unica…

September 28, 2015The Times of India (Pankaj Shah) | http://goo.gl/EaZzqU

LUCKNOW: UP government on Monday decided to take over the private sugar mills in case they do not operate in the forth coming crushing season. 

UP chief secretary Alok Ranjan said that directions for stern action against sugar mills has been issued. He said that a few sugar mills had informed…

September 28, 2015Danessa Rivera (Philippine Star) | http://goo.gl/JzuhNW

MANILA, Philippines – The 40-megawatt biomass facility of Global Business Power Corp. (GBPC) and sugar miller Roxas Holdings Inc. (RHI) is expected to be completed by the third quarter of 2017 under the feed-in tariff (FIT) scheme.

GBPC executive vice president Jaime Azurin said the…

September 23, 2015 Sugaronline | http://goo.gl/GnKhCv

The global sugar deficit could grow to as much as 6.2 million metric tonnes in 2016/17, from 2.5 million tonnes forecast in 2015/16, the executive director of the International Sugar Organisation (ISO), Jose Orive, said at a Brazil Sugar Week conference, according to Reuters.

Orive said world consumption of…

September 23, 2015 Sugaronline | http://goo.gl/zai2eb

Hippo Valley Estates Limited says it has ethanol production capacity of 41 million litres per month and has applied for a licence to supply the local market, according to Zimbabwe's News Day newspaper.

The country requires 50 million litres of petrol per month. Of that, 7.5 million litres will be ethanol under…