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March 12, 2015 Daily Star by Carla Gomez | http://goo.gl/Y2IcOM  

Sugar Regulatory Administrator Ma. Regina Martin yesterday said a mild El Niño is not worrisome for the sugarcane industry because more sun is good for cane growth.

Negros Occidental has not felt a pronounced El Niño yet, she said.

There has been rain in the first quarter of the year…

March 9, 2015 American Sugar Alliance | http://goo.gl/nbNdSy  

The global sugar community chastised India when it announced export subsidies last year that seem to be in clear violation of WTO rules. Those subsidies, which were set at $53 a ton in February and increased to $54 a ton later in the year, helped the country offload 2.8 million tons onto the already depressed…

March 5, 2015 Platts by Beatriz Pupo | http://goo.gl/esooKr

The implementation date for Brazil's much-awaited increase of the anhydrous ethanol blend into gasoline to 27% will be March 16, the country's minister of mines and energy said late Wednesday after a government meeting.

The announcement came a month after a government meeting with the sugarcane and…

March 6, 2015 Agra-net.com | http://goo.gl/5zHl6q  

Frequent rainfalls across the key production areas have resulted in lower crushing rates in the week ended February 23, the latest production data for Thailand suggest.

Crushing rates remained below 1 mln tonnes per day throughout most of the week with daily sugar production volumes falling to below 110,000 tonnes…

March 11, 2015 Daily Star by Carla Gomez | http://goo.gl/FdaPb5

The Bureau of Internal Revenue is issuing a memorandum circular that will clarify some provisions of Revenue Regulation 11-2014 that imposes a one percent creditable withholding tax on raw sugar and molasses upon withdrawal from the mills, Ric Cabrera, BIR Region 12 chief legal counsel, said yesterday.