Sugar output in India, which vies with Brazil as world’s top grower, may drop to a 3-yr low next season

ED&F Man Holdings Ltd. took delivery of about 350,000 metric tons of white sugar.

The government also plans to impose stock limits on sugar mills until September 30.

At the National Commodity and Derivatives Exchange, sugar for delivery in July moved down Rs 25, or 1.07 per cent, to Rs 2,321 per quintal.

Sugar traders in India are holding off new purchases of the commodity.

India, the world’s biggest sugar consumer, may order makers of cookies and beverages to stop buying locally and rely on imports as it seeks...

Sugar buyers in India, the world’s biggest user, may renegotiate some import contracts as a decline in domestic prices to a four-month low ...

Raw sugar prices probably will decline from a 29-year high this year, as a “huge increase” in production driven mainly by Brazil may balanc...

Sugar prices are expected to remain higher in the coming months.

The Centre will pay mills ‘a fair and remunerative price’ for sugar.

The country’s sugar stocks from this season, ending Wednesday, are just enough for domestic consumption of a little over three months, says...

Uttar Pradesh, the second-largest sugar producing state in the country, is contemplating to impose a limit on sugar stocks millers can keep.

Sugar output may slump 41% to 15.5 million tonnes this season starting October 2008, as poor supply of cane has prompted many millers to sh...

Sugar stocks took a beating Tuesday after the government’s decision to impose limits on the amount of sugar that can be stocked.

The Centre will impose limits on the amount of sugar that can be stocked and may raise the price millers have to pay farmers for cane by up...

Buoyed by down-spiralling crude oil prices since October 2008, the petroleum ministry has circulated a Cabinet note seeking support for its...

The problem of plenty is likely to besiege the sugar sector next year with output slated to almost double to 230 lakh tonnes during 2006-07...