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Kenya: Nzoia Sugar Pays Farmers Sh160 Million
2013-04-08 08:46:23| Sugar Industry News
NZOIA Sugar Company has this week paid out Sh160 million to contracted out-grower farmers for cane deliveries made to the factory between last November and February this year, the Star established yesterday.
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Ukraine - Farmers may reduce sugar beet area by 40%
2013-03-27 06:59:00| Sugar Industry News
Farmers may reconsider plans for sowing sugar beets in 2013 and reduce the area by 40% because of low sugar prices, the President of the Ukrainian Agrarian Confederation, Leonid Kozachenko, said.
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Louisiana sugar farmers bring in record crop
2013-02-10 06:37:34| Sugar Industry News
BATON ROUGE Louisiana sugar farmers had a bumper crop this year, exceeding the past record sugar production by about 80 million pounds.
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Sugar Belt Chambers of Commerce supporting Louisiana cane farmers, national sugar policy
2013-01-16 08:20:46| Sugar Industry News
THIBODAUX - When the United States Chamber of Commerce turned its back on domestic sugar producers in the sugarcane producing states of Louisiana, Florida, Texas, Hawaii and the Midwestern sugar beet states by advocating the end of the national sugar policy as outlined in the 2008 Farm Bill, Louisiana chambers in the Sugar Belt parishes decided to stand up for local farmers and the state\'s $3 billion dollar sugar industry.
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