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For Marketing Year October 2020/September 2021 (MY 2020/21), Post forecasts overall sugar production to increase to 610,000 metric tons (MT) due to favorable weather conditions.

On September 18, 2020, India notified to the World Trade Organization (WTO) a draft regulation related to new labeling requirements for packaged foods containing sweeteners.

Turkey’s sugar beet production is forecast at 19 MMT in MY 2020/21 and is expected to result in 2.75 MMT of sugar.

Brazil’s MY 2020/21 sugarcane crush has been revised upward to 655 million metric tons (mmt), due to overall favorable weather conditions in the north-northeastern growing region.

Post estimates that the sugar cane crop will decrease by less than 1 percent to 19.1 million MT in the 2020/21 MY, based on frost and fire damage in some growing areas, some growers diversifying...

EU sugar production for MY 2020/21 is forecast at 16 million MT, one million MT below MY 2019/20 and two million MT below MY 2018/19.

Philippine raw sugar production in MY 2020/21 is projected to reach 2.19 MMT, up two percent from the previous year due to improved sugar cane genetics and farm management.

Post raises Argentine 2015 sugar production estimate to 2.05 million tons, a small increase from USDA’s number due to beneficial weather during harvest time.

Post forecasts that the 2014/15 MY sugar cane production will decrease by nine percent to 18.2 MMT, from the 2013/14 MY sugar cane production of 20.0 MMT, as a result of very dry weather conditions.

The Brazilian MY 2014/15 sugarcane crop is estimated at 619 mmt, down 5 mmt from MY 2013/14, mainly due to weather related problems in the center-southern producing region.

The Philippines is the 8th largest sugarcane producer and the third largest U.S. sugar tariff rate quota recipient.

Post forecast centrifugal sugar production for marketing year (MY) 2014/15 at 27.3 MMT (raw value), a decrease of 640,000 metric tons (MT).