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July 14, 2015Sugaronline | http://goo.gl/okvmhw

The Karnataka state government has already released INR3.21 billion (US$50.5 million) towards the first instalment of dues payable to sugarcane growers as promised on the floor of the Assembly recently since private sugar factories expressed their inability to pay INR200 per tonne incentive fixed for the year 2013/14,…

July 15, 2015Sugaronline | http://goo.gl/mrmRUz

The pessimistic predictions of the Brazilian sugarcane industry for 2015/16 appear to be coming true, with plant closures, redundancies and requests for judicial recovery, according to Brazil's Folha do Sao Paulo.

This is down to several factors, including the ongoing crisis in the Brazilian economy, the excess of…

July 15, 2015 The Philippine Star (Roel Pareño) | http://goo.gl/ucKyg1

ZAMBOANGA CITY, Philippines – Police seized a truck loaded with 4,500 kilos of alleged smuggled sugar in a village here Monday.

The truck (JDM 258) was pulled over by police officers at a checkpoint in Barangay Recodo, according to Superintendent Ariel Huesca, chief of the city police public…

July 14, 2015Sugaronline | http://goo.gl/NsKC1y

The Penang Sugar Mill in Rakiraki has resumed crushing sugarcane, according to the Fiji Broadcasting Corp.

The mill has recently been facing mechanical problems since it began crushing on June 30.

Sugar Cane Growers Council chief executive Sundresh Chetty says the Fiji Sugar Corporation has assured the problems…

July 13, 2015Sugaronline | http://goo.gl/5y07Gt

Ethiopia has blended 12.5 million litres of ethanol with benzene in the past fiscal year, the Ministry of Water, Irrigation and Energy said, according to Ethiopia's Walta Information Center.

Bezuneh Tolecha, Public Relations Head at the Ministry, told Walta Information Center (WIC) Ethiopia saved US$10.2 million from…