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Sugar Standards Gazetted - Government of Jamaica Jamaica Information Service

12/31/2016

Jamaica Gleaner

Sugar Standards Gazetted
Government of Jamaica, Jamaica Information Service
The Compulsory Standards (Declaration of Standard Specification) (Brown Sugar [Revised]) Order, 2016, was signed by Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Karl Samuda and gazetted on December 30. Mr. Samuda, said the ...
New sugar standard gazetted | Lead Stories | Jamaica GleanerJamaica Gleaner

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Sugar ends at disastrous 183000 tonnes - Stabroek News

12/31/2016

Sugar ends at disastrous 183000 tonnes
Stabroek News
Milking cows and exporting milk and exporting evaporated and pasteurized milk. Absolutely no effort made in terms of diversification. MARKETING - produce and market packaged sugar for exports only (usd 1.30 a pound). Why wasn't this done? Phasing out ...

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Vietnam sugar production down 13 percent - VietNamNet Bridge

12/31/2016

VietNamNet Bridge

Vietnam sugar production down 13 percent
VietNamNet Bridge
Pham Quoc Doanh, Chairman of the Vietnam Sugarcane and Sugar Association, said sugar output in the 2015-16 crop was 1.23 million tonnes, a year-on-year fall of 12.7 percent. Together with 185,000 tonnes of imports, this fully met domestic demand that ...

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Sugar standards gazetted - News - JamaicaObserver.com - Jamaica Observer

12/31/2016

Jamaica Gleaner

Sugar standards gazetted - News - JamaicaObserver.com
Jamaica Observer
KINGSTON, Jamaica (JIS) — The Government has completed the standards, which dictate that all brown sugar in the local retail market be adequately packaged ...
New sugar standard gazetted | Lead Stories | Jamaica GleanerJamaica Gleaner

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Lockport farm provides New Year's cabbages for good fortune - Houma Courier

12/31/2016

Lockport farm provides New Year's cabbages for good fortune
Houma Courier
Just like sugar-cane farmers and everyone else, you've just gotta work around (Mother Nature)," Keller said. Demand for cabbage heightens this weekend as people seek to start the new year off with optimism for good luck. Folklore has it that cabbage ...

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Leadership group to host conference - Daily Journal

12/31/2016

Leadership group to host conference
Daily Journal
The Indiana Department of Agriculture's Indiana Grown initiative announced the addition of Suzy's Teahouse & Bakery and Sugar Creek Farm Market of Franklin to the organization.With the membership, the businesses will expand their reaches to both ...

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New sugar standard gazetted - Jamaica Gleaner

12/31/2016

Jamaica Gleaner

New sugar standard gazetted
Jamaica Gleaner
Karl Samuda (left), minister of industry, commerce, agriculture and fisheries, discusses the future of the sugar industry yesterday with Allan Rickards (centre), chairman of the All-Island Jamaica Cane Farmers' Association, and Phillip Henriques ...

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A Month Without Sugar - New York Times

12/30/2016

A Month Without Sugar
New York Times
Research increasingly indicates that an overabundance of simple carbohydrates, and sugar in particular, is the No. 1 problem in modern diets. An aggressive, well-financed campaign by the sugar industry masked this reality for years. Big Sugar instead ...

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SRA Landbank ink deal for P300 M credit facility - Philippine Star

12/30/2016

Philippine Star

SRA, Landbank ink deal for P300 M credit facility
Philippine Star
The SCF is under the Farm Support and Farm Mechanization Programs of the Sugarcane Industry Development Act (SIDA). The credit facility is allotted for SRA-registered sugarcane farmers, block farms, planters' cooperatives, associations, federations ...

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via Sugar Farm News http://ift.tt/2gKpejj December 30, 2016 at 05:26AM

Steelgrass Chocolate Farm offers educational cacao exotic fruit tours - Thegardenisland.com

12/30/2016

Thegardenisland.com

Steelgrass Chocolate Farm offers educational cacao, exotic fruit tours
Thegardenisland.com
WAILUA — The bees at Steelgrass Chocolate Farm gave Victoria Bernard her first-ever taste of honey and now the Texan, who hails from Sugar Land, has a tasty Kauai memory to take home. “I've just never tried honey,” she said. “It's sweeter than I ...

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via Sugar Farm News http://ift.tt/2gKpejj December 30, 2016 at 03:57AM

TMC demands higher SAP for cane - The Hindu

12/30/2016

TMC demands higher SAP for cane
The Hindu
The Tamil Maanila Congress on Thursday demanded that the State Advised Price for sugarcane be increased from the recently-declared Rs. 2,850 a tonne to Rs. 4,000 a tonne. In a statement, TMC president G.K. Vasan said that sugarcane farmers, who had ...

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Sugar millers seek debt restructuring price stabilisation fund - Hindu Business Line

12/30/2016

Hindu Business Line

Sugar millers seek debt restructuring, price stabilisation fund
Hindu Business Line
In a meeting with Finance Minister Arun Jaitley earlier this week, representatives of the Indian Sugar Mills Association (ISMA) called for restructuring of the industry's debts, creation of a price stabilisation fund, extension of interest subvention ...
COMMENT: Sugar debt recast no solution; farmers and mills need to talkMoneycontrol.com

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via Sugar Prices http://ift.tt/2gLCjsh December 30, 2016 at 03:20AM

HC&S plans online auction for plantation equipment - Maui News

12/30/2016

HC&S plans online auction for plantation equipment
Maui News
A&B said it has no plans to farm sugar cane as part of its diversification efforts, although there have been “some expressions of interest” from a few parties to grow sugar cane on a small scale. A&B said it would be involved with any future sugar cane ...

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via Sugar Farm News http://ift.tt/2gKpejj December 30, 2016 at 02:43AM

Sugar millers seek debt restructuring price stabilisation fund - Hindu Business Line

12/30/2016

Hindu Business Line

Sugar millers seek debt restructuring, price stabilisation fund
Hindu Business Line
In a meeting with Finance Minister Arun Jaitley earlier this week, representatives of the Indian Sugar Mills Association (ISMA) called for restructuring of the industry's debts, creation of a price stabilisation fund, extension of interest subvention ...
COMMENT: Sugar debt recast no solution; farmers and mills need to talkMoneycontrol.com

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HC&S plans online auction for plantation equipment - Maui News

12/30/2016

HC&S plans online auction for plantation equipment
Maui News
A Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Co. Tournahauler is turned in a tight circle while being positioned to take on a load of harvested cane in May. The company's Tournahaulers are among the more than 450 pieces of equipment and machinery that will be ...

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Sugar Grove's Stachel loves the challenge of giving new life to old treasures - Southwest Virginia Today

12/29/2016

Southwest Virginia Today

Sugar Grove's Stachel loves the challenge of giving new life to old treasures
Southwest Virginia Today
Joe and Patty Stachel of Sugar Grove like old things and enjoy taking items and repurposing them and giving them new life. They are .... Stachel purchased the property, 25 acres that included an old farm house and barn, from Pat Medley. The property ...

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via Sugar Farm News http://ift.tt/2gKpejj December 29, 2016 at 09:58AM

Sugar: A Matter of Life and Death - Wall Street Journal

12/29/2016

Wall Street Journal

Sugar: A Matter of Life and Death
Wall Street Journal
This time around, he focuses on the “unique physiological, metabolic, and endocrinological effects” that sugars have on the human body, how they trigger obesity and diabetes, and the role that the food industry has played in covering up sugar's ...

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via sugar industry http://ift.tt/2hd361E December 29, 2016 at 09:57AM

High prices mean sugar's future sweet - Mexico News Daily

12/29/2016

Mexico News Daily

High prices mean sugar's future sweet
Mexico News Daily
Adrián Sánchez told the newspaper El Universal that producers expect to obtain 6.4 million tonnes of sugar by the end of this year's harvest, bringing the industry closer than ever to its goal of surpassing 7 million tones. The union leader said the ...

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via sugar industry http://ift.tt/2hd361E December 29, 2016 at 09:28AM

High prices mean sugar's future sweet - Mexico News Daily

12/29/2016

Mexico News Daily

High prices mean sugar's future sweet
Mexico News Daily
Sugar production represents 3% of Mexico's Gross Domestic Product and employs over 2 million people in 16 states, both directly and indirectly. “Everything leads us to expect these historical prices will continue, and we must make the most of them ...

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via Sugar Prices http://ift.tt/2gLCjsh December 29, 2016 at 09:05AM

Finance Ministry considering debt restructuring for sugar sector - Business Standard

12/29/2016

Business Standard

Finance Ministry considering debt restructuring for sugar sector
Business Standard
“As most sugar mills individually will not have exposure of Rs 500 crore, we request to modify the scheme specifically suitable for the sugar industry by modifying the exposure to Rs 100 crore and taking internal cash accruals of one year period as the ...

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