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The South African sugar industry is expected to recover from the previous seasons’ drought following the normal rainfall and weather patterns in the 2017/18 MY.

The first EU sugar production after the termination of the quota regime, MY 2017/18, is set to reach 20.1 million MT, with an additional 1.8 million MT for industrial use.

India’s centrifugal sugar production in marketing year (MY) 2017/18 (Oct-Sept) is revised up to 27.7 million metric tons (MMT), 7.4 percent above the previous post estimate and 25 percent above....

Turkey is forecast to produce 2.5 million metric tons (MMT) of sugar in marketing year (MY) 2017/18.

For Marketing Year 2017/2018 (MY17/18), Post forecasts overall production to be higher than MY16/17, at 590,000 MT due to favorable weather conditions.

Mexican sugar production for marketing year 2017/18 is forecast to be at 6.4 million metric tons rawvalue (MMT-RV).

Post forecasts the Australian sugar cane crush for 2017/18 at 34 million MT, up 6 percent on the official forecast.

MY 2016/17 (December/November) total raw sugar production was revised upwards from 2.25 MMT to 2.50 MMT on better-than-expected cane yields resulting from favorable weather conditions....

MY2017/18 sugar production will likely increase to 11.2 million metric tons, up 12 percent from MY2016/17 due to favorable weather conditions.

A notification to amend the provisions of declaring quantity of added sugar in non-alcoholic carbonated beverages was published in the Official Gazette of India.

Colombia’s biofuel production decreased in 2016 as a result of difficult weather conditions that affected its main feedstocks (sugarcane and palm oil).

This is Posts’ first report on the Zambia sugar industry.