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June 8, 2015Sugaronline | http://goo.gl/Gt7knA

Ethiopia is on track to double the number of its sugar estates to six by November this year, a senior official said on Friday, and the Horn of Africa country hopes they will generate US$500 million a year in export revenue, according to Reuters.

Addis Ababa aims to become Africa's biggest sugar producer and exporter…

June 5, 2015Sugaronline | http://goo.gl/abgFMC

Sugar production - the industry which now enjoys the highest protection level from the State - is expected to ‘die' when Vietnam cuts the sugar import tariff to 5% in 2018 as committed, according to VietnamNet.

Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Cao Duc Phat said that sugar is one of the…

June 4, 2015Sugaronline | http://goo.gl/qeo6x8

India's sugar production is estimated to touch all time high of 28.3 million metric tonnes  in the ongoing marketing year, 2014/15, as mills have already manufactured 27.95 million tonnes so far, according to the Press Trust of India. 

As compared to about 24.04 million tonnes of sugar produced till May in the last…

June 3, 2015Sugaronline | http://goo.gl/dFiWM2

InfodriveIndia.com, India's premier research company in export import statistics, announced that India's Sugars and Sugar Confectionery imports in April 2015 has fallen to US$28.73 million, a decrease of 32.45% compared to March 2015, reports Sugaronline.

This finding is based on imports in India of Sugars and…

June 2, 2015Sugaronline | http://goo.gl/aUFx82

The Sugar Association of the Caribbean (SAC) has announced that the top sugar producer in the region for the month of April 2015 was Belize, with 28,289 tonnes, according to Go Jamaica. 

Guyana produced 26,826 tonnes, followed by Jamaica with 25,862 tonnes and Barbados with 3,173 tonnes, for a total regional…