date:Apr 29, 2016
ing start to the season, with sugar production over the first half of the April up 261% year on year, at 1.43m tonnes, as mills rush to make up for a very slow end to the previous season, caused by heavy rains.
A survey of analysts prior to the release pegged expectations for sugar production over the period at 1.1m tonnes.
The cane crush over the first half of April came in at 32.84m tonnes, where analysts were looking for a crush of 29.4 m tonnes.
Dry weather
Unica ascribed the rate of can