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allAfrica.com: Nigeria: Council Advocates Mini Sugar Plant Concept to Empower Farmers
allafrica.com | 17 hours 4 minutes ago
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Illovo Pulls out of Mali Sugar Project on Security Concerns - Bloomberg
www.bloomberg.com | 17 hours 4 minutes ago
Illovo Sugar Ltd., Africa’s largest sugar producer, said it has ended its involvement in the Markala sugar project in Mali because of incomplete funding and a deteriorating security situation in the West African nation.

Agrimoney.com | Macquarie boosts sugar ties with Czarnikow deal
www.agrimoney.com | 17 hours 4 minutes ago
Macquarie buys a 42.5% holding in Czarnikow, in the latest of a series of purchases of stakes in physical commodities traders

The Public Ledger
www.agra-net.com | 17 hours 4 minutes ago
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Illovo lifts profit even as sugar output falls - Business News | IOL Business | IOL.co.za
www.iol.co.za | 17 hours 4 minutes ago
Illovo delivered an impressive 31 percent increase in operating profit for the year to March despite writing off costs of R173 million spent over four years on a project in Mali.

Sweet revival to closed sugar mills across Bihar - The Times of India
timesofindia.indiatimes.com | May 25, 2012
During his recent Seva Yatra to East Champaran (Motihari) district, CM Nitish Kumar took time off to visit Sugauli sugar mill. This was one of the two sugar mills of Bihar State Sugar Development Corporation (BSSDC) in the district which was closed.

Council advocates mini sugar plant concept to empower farmers
www.dailytrust.com.ng | May 25, 2012
mini sugar plant concept in Nigeria will empower local farmers to adopt the value-chain approach that will enable them generate income from cane production to processing, sugar production and marketing, the Acting Executive Secretary, National Sugar Development Council, Dr. L.D. Busari, has said.

Sugarcane bill to tackled at committee level by June, says lawmaker | Sun.Star
www.sunstar.com.ph | May 24, 2012
THIRT District Representative Albee Benitez said Wednesday that the Committee on Agriculture of the House of Representatives will start deliberations on his proposed “Sugarcane Bill” by the first week of June. Benitez filed House Bill 6113 or the Sugarcane Industry Development Act of 2012 last May

DAILY STAR: Top Stories
www.visayandailystar.com | May 24, 2012
The Philippine sugar industry delegation to Washington has assured the continued supply of sugar to the United States in the coming years and support for the US Farm bill, Sugar Regulatory Administrator Ma. Regina Bautista Martin said yesterday.

Sugar beet cultivation
pakobserver.net | May 24, 2012
Sugarcane is one of the most important cash crops of Pakistan in general and that of Khyber PakhtunKhwa, in particular. It is grown on a huge area of about one million hectares. Linked with it is a viable sugar industry which is the second largest industry of Pakistan after textile industry. There