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The impact of the 2014/15 MY drought in the sugar industry is expected to continue in the 2015/16 MY.

With the recently successful conclusion of the Economic Partnership Agreement negotiations with the European Union (EU), Swaziland maintained its preferential market access to Europe.

Post forecast that India will produce surplus centrifugal sugar for the sixth consecutive year.

For 2014/2015, the Nicaraguan Sugar Commission anticipates a sugar cane harvest of sugar 7.2 million MT with a total sugar production of 728,042 MT, a 4 percent decreased compared to the previous year

El Salvador's sugarcane planted area in 2014/2015 (Nov 2014-Oct 2015) is higher than in 2013/14 reaching 71,143 hectares (ha).

The Venezuelan sugar industry expects domestic sugar production to drop in MY 2015/2016, constrained by price controls and limited foreign exchange to import raw sugar.

The EU-28 production of sugar for food for MY 2014/15 is estimated to increase to 16.750 million MT in raw sugar equivalent (RSE), from 16.0 million MT in MY 2013/14...

Mexican sugar production for marketing year 2015/16 is forecast to be at 6.5 million metric tons rawvalue (MMT-RV), although there is not yet an official forecast.

Argentine sugar production for 2015/16 is projected up at 2.25 million metric tons.

In MY2015/2016, total raw sugar production is forecast to increase 3 percent to 2.127 MMT from MY2014/15 due to an increase in raw beet sugar production of 60,000 MT or a total of 1.210 MMT.

Australian sugar production is projected to reach 4.8 million tonnes in 2015/16 assuming that average seasonal conditions prevail.

Sugar production, trade and domestic prices are largely governed by the Sugar Regulatory Administration (SRA), a government agency under the Philippine Department of Agriculture.