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Kenya Sugar Board ordered to stop licensing new millers

2013-11-08 08:33:04| Sugar Industry News

NAIROBI, KENYA: The Parliamentary Committee on Agriculture wants the Kenya Sugar Board ( KSB) to stop licensing new millers until the crises afflicting the industry have been resolved.

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The Sugar Program is Central Planning

2013-11-08 08:33:04| Sugar Industry News

House and Senate negotiators are working out details of a big farm bill that may pass this year. No industry in America is as coddled as farming, and no industry is as centrally planned from Washington. The federal sugar program is perhaps the most Soviet of all. Here\'s a sketch of the sugar program, which the supposedly conservative, tea party-dominated lower chamber may soon ratify:

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World sugar to see 4.4 million tonne surplus

2013-11-08 08:33:04| Sugar Industry News

The global sugar market is set to see a surplus of 4.4 million tonnes in 2013/14, according to analysts FO Licht. Although this is a decrease from the 8.4 mln recorded last year, it is still seen as "a major burden for any sustained recovery of prices".

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Sugar business lifts Wilmar's profits as firm bucks trend

2013-11-08 08:33:04| Sugar Industry News

NEW YORK/SINGAPORE, Nov 7 (Reuters) - Wilmar International Ltd 's reported a 2.5 percent increase in its third quarter profit from a year earlier as a boost in sugar milling and merchandising activities offset weakness in the palm oil business.

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Kenya: Sugar Millers Want Regulations Put in Place to Control Sugar Poaching

2013-11-07 07:09:42| Sugar Industry News

Sugar millers are calling for a framework to control sugar poaching and smuggling. Butali and Western Kenya representatives told the house agriculture committee that the regulations will enable them ensure contracted farmers clear their debts before selling their products to other Millers. They are calling on the sugar board to facilitate the Miller's to share lists of farmers contracted to supply sugar.

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