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Sugar crop heads for all-time high after rain
Bloomberg News, Published on 27/07/2015
» Sugar production in Thailand could reach record levels this coming harvest season after recent rain offset the effects of a strengthening El Nino to boost crop growth, according to Office of the Cane and Sugar Board.
El Nino starting to bite in Asia
Bloomberg News, Published on 15/07/2015
» Drought linked to the weather pattern will cut Thailand’s main rice harvest to the lowest in nine years. Soybeans sown in the past two weeks in India may be pulled out of the ground without immediate rain, and the outlook is cloudy for Asian palm oil. Australia’s wheat crop may decline.
Drought pits soldiers against farmers flouting water curbs
Bloomberg News, Published on 09/07/2015
» Rice farmer Boontham Chei-pa switches on a water pump in the evenings to irrigate his parched field from a canal in Suphan Buri province. The soil is hardly moistened before the motor is switched off.
UN sees smaller rice harvest as El Nino parches crops
Bloomberg News, Published on 08/07/2015
» The global rice harvest will increase less than previously estimated because of a strengthening El Nino, reducing stockpiles for a second year, the United Nations said.
Buying owls, growing food
Business, Bloomberg News, Published on 02/06/2015
» Rosmaya Hadi, head of the Indonesian central bank in West Java province, is trying to rein in Asia's highest inflation rate. That's why she's harvesting tomatoes.
Thai rice stockpiles could trump El Nino wild card
Bloomberg News, Published on 27/05/2015
» The severity of El Nino this year may decide whether rice prices recover from the lowest since 2008.
Rice farmers switch to sugar
Bloomberg News, Published on 16/04/2015
» Sugar cane output in Thailand, the world’s second-biggest exporter of the sweetener, will be higher than the government estimated after rice farmers switched crops.
Second rice crop seen dropping to 15-year low
Bloomberg News, Published on 08/04/2015
» Production from the second rice crop will drop 43% to the lowest level in 15 years on lack of rainfall, cutting the annual harvest in the world's biggest exporter, according to the Office of Agricultural Economics.
Sugar surplus seen shrinking in '15
Bloomberg News, Published on 19/12/2014
» LONDON — Sugar demand rising by about 2% will help reduce the global glut as output remains little changed from last season, according to Czarnikow Group Ltd.
Drought limiting sugar production
Bloomberg News, Published on 14/11/2014
» Sugar production in Thailand will decline from a record this season after drought in the world’s largest shipper after Brazil limited cane growth and cut yields, according to the country’s millers’ group.