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Sugar mills, farmers differ over fixing cane price
2013-10-21 09:01:44| Sugar Industry News
Sugarcane farmers and sugar mills are at loggerheads over the fixation of cane price in Karnataka for the year 2013-14. The first meeting of the newly constituted sugarcane control board, held in Bangalore last month failed to arrive at a consensus on the cane price as both representatives mill owners and farmers' body stuck to their stand.
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EU-funded sugar institute starts trials
2013-10-21 09:01:44| Sugar Industry News
FUNDING provided by the European Union has resulted in a total of 164 demonstration trials on sugar cane farmers fields.
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Sugar factory owners fuel land grabbing
2013-10-21 09:01:44| Sugar Industry News
A new report by Oxfam International has lifted the lid on how the ever spiralling demand for sugar and the overwhelming rush for land to grow it, is fuelling land grabbing. Oxfam\'s new report, Sugar Rush: Land rights and the supply chains of the biggest food and beverage companies, while based on findings in Brazil and Cambodia and Africa in general, echoes the outcries by Ugandan politicians and activists. - See more at: http://www.independent.co.ug/news/news-analysis/8343-sugar-factory-owners-fuel-land-grabbing#sthash.j52jHBoS.dpuf
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Copersucar blaze: Brazil fire destroys one of world's biggest sugar terminals
2013-10-21 09:01:44| Sugar Industry News
180,000 tonnes of sugar have been destroyed - driving prices up to the highest in a year
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Brazil fire destroys one of world's biggest sugar terminals
2013-10-21 09:01:44| Sugar Industry News
A fire ravaged Copersucar's sugar terminal in Brazil on Friday, paralyzing operations of the world's biggest sugar trader and putting 10 million tonnes of export capacity offline for six months or more.
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