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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.

Sugar shortages have been widely reported over the last few weeks in most of Egypt’s governorates.

The Secretariat of Economy (SE) published in the Diario Oficial (Federal Register), on October 21, 2016, an announcement containing the maximum quota allotment of sugar to be exported...

Demand for food products served as an anchor for the Ukrainian economy in 2016. On-going political and economic crisis resulted in general economic slowdown in 2013-15.

Lower polarity rates in the last two harvest seasons and unchanged sugar quotas led to a substantial increase in sugar imports in 2015.

The Agricultural Economic Fact sheet for Angola has been updated to include calendar years 2013, 2014 and 2015. Due to the relative low oil prices Angola’s oil exports dropped by 45 percent...