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July 13, 2015Sugaronline | http://goo.gl/9SRN0B

The average sugar recovery of 11.05% achieved by 65 working sugar factories in 16 districts of the State during 2014/15 marks a marginal increase of 0.08% over the preceding season when the recovery was 10.9%, according to India's The Hindu newspaper.

As per seasonal performance analysis of different sugar mills in…

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

China is likely to overtake Indonesia to become the world's top raw sugar importer in 2015/16, due to buoyant Chinese demand, Paulo Roberto Souza, president of Brazilian supplier Copersucar, said on Friday, according to Reuters.

Souza said expectations of strong Chinese demand at a time of constrained domestic…

July 11, 2015Manila Standard Today (Vito Barcelo and Gabrielle Marie Consuelo H. Binaday) | http://goo.gl/OHtiJp

The Bureau of Customs has filed smuggling charges against a Cagayan de Oro firm and its importer for illegally importing from China 260,000 kilos of sugar worth more than P13 million.

Charged were Argic Dinawanao, owner of AMD Royale Enterprises, and…

July 8, 2015Sugaronline | http://goo.gl/6IQNQF

Consultations are on in earnest between government officials and stakeholders in the sugarcane industry in the wake of a veiled threat by manufacturing conglomerate Seprod Limited to pull out of sugar production, according to Jamaica's Gleaner newspaper.

Permanent secretary in the Ministry of Agriculture, Donovan…

July 8, 2015Sugaronline | http://goo.gl/eitpsS

It is "too early" yet to rate Thailand's drought a major worry for the sugar market, ED&F Man said, flagging large supplies of the sweetener already built up in the second-ranked exporter of the sweetener, according to Agrimoney.

A drought billed as Thailand's worst in decades has raised concerns of Bangkok running…