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Sugar production seen remaining weak
Reuters, Published on 10/02/2020
» DUBAI: A sharp fall in production in Thailand has propelled sugar prices to the highest level in more than two years and early indications for next year suggest another poor crop is likely, participants at a sugar conference in Dubai said.
India likely to pay cane growers to help sugar mills
Reuters, Published on 09/04/2018
» NEW DELHI: India is likely to provide financial support to cane farmers for produce sold to sugar mills, two government sources said, in a rare move to subsidise the industry which is reeling under a glut and struggling to export because of low global prices.
Thailand to stop sugar subsidy by year-end
Reuters, Published on 21/02/2017
» The government will stop subsidising sugar production and drop domestic control of consumer prices for sugar by the end of the year, a Ministry of Agriculture official said on Tuesday.
Myanmar's military land grab
Asia focus, Reuters, Published on 02/01/2017
» Maw Maw Oo discreetly pushed the "record" button on her smartphone as the state ministers from Aung San Suu Kyi's months-old civilian government started talking.
Drought killing next year's sugar crop
Reuters, Published on 01/04/2016
» RATCHABURI -- Prasert Jitkham stoops down and pulls a yellowed sugar cane shoot from baked soil. The worst drought in more than 20 years `has killed the plant he should harvest next year.
Brazil challenges Thai sugar 'subsidies'
Business, Reuters, Published on 03/03/2016
» BRASILIA: Brazil will challenge Thailand at the World Trade Organization (WTO) over "subsidies" for sugar producers that it says have dragged down global prices, the Trade Ministry said.
From garage to grocery store
Business, Reuters, Published on 25/05/2015
» Small US food manufacturers once toiled for decades to develop a critical mass of fans for their products. Now, an increasing number of privately-held players are going from garage to grocery store in fewer than five years thanks to an erosion of barriers to entry within the food industry.