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May 5, 2015Sugaronline | http://goo.gl/6uqSbs

Meeting sugar consumption needs in the country could become a problem as the sugarcane cultivation area is going down year after year, say officials during the annual meeting of the Federal Committee on Agriculture (FCA), according to Pakistan's Dawn newspaper.

They told the FCA - the highest forum for discussing…

May 5, 2015Sugaronline | http://goo.gl/eB61Ak

It is a Catch-22 for Nandkumar Patil, one of the millions of sugar cane farmers in India, according to Reuters.

Millers have not paid up for his cane this year as falling sugar prices have hit their income. But switching crops is not an option as prices for most agricultural produce have dropped and forecasts for weak…

May 4, 2015Sugaronline | http://goo.gl/LXdRkS

Brazil's sugar exports will fall, a little, in 2015/16 for a third successive season despite a recovery in cane production, as mills divert more crop to making ethanol, US farm officials said, according to Agrimoney.

The US Department of Agriculture's Brasilia bureau, in its first estimate for Brazil's cane…

March 31, 2015 Visayan Daily Star by Carla Gomez | http://goo.gl/wKJFNp  

Rep. Alfredo Abelardo Benitez (Neg. Occ., 3 rd District) said he met with Bureau of Internal Revenue chief Kim Henares yesterday and she assured that she will come out soon with a new revenue regulation exempting all small planters with annual gross revenue of P300,000 and below from filing monthly…

March 26, 2015 Sugaronline | http://goo.gl/kbsXnR  

Sugar Regulatory Administrator Ma. Regina Martin said that 40%-50% of the standing sugarcane to be milled next crop year in Negros are the most affected by the dry spell hitting the province, and badly need rain, according to the Philippines' Visayan Daily Star.

"If rains will fall, these affected canes…