Brazil Sugar Output Will Rise 19 Percent to Record, Unica Says

Bloomberg Business Week
March 31, 2010, 9:52 AM EDT
By Lucia Kassai

March 31 (Bloomberg) -- Sugar output in Brazil’s Center South, the world’s largest producing region, will rise 19 percent to a record in the coming season as drier weather boosts yields and new mills come online.

Mills in the region, which makes 90 percent of Brazil’s sugar, will produce 34.1 million metric tons of the sweetener in the crop year starting tomorrow, up from 28.6 million a year earlier, Unica said in a report distributed today in Sao Paulo. Sugar-cane output will increase 10 percent to 595.9 million tons, Unica said.

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