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Tongaat plans to double sugar output to 1,9Mt/y
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As global sugar prices and demand continue to improve, agricultural company Tongaat Hulett plans to increase its sugar output to 1,9-million tons a year over the next few years.
CEO Peter Staude said on Monday that the company would focus on...
By: Chanel Pringle
01 Mar 10
AGROPROCESSING
Illovo sees higher sugar output, earnings to be flat
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Sugar producer Illovo Sugar expected the group’s sugar production for the current season to amount to about 1,7-million tons, 200 000 t higher than the year before, if normal growth and operations continued for the remainder of the season.
The...
By: Chanel Pringle
19 Nov 09
SUGAR
Higher sugar production, prices to boost Illovo’s interim earnings
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South African sugar producer Illovo expects to report improved earnings for the first half of the 2010 financial year, as a result of improved sugar prices and increased production in some of its operating regions.
The company, led by MD Graham...
03 Nov 09
RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Rural sugar cane farmer development programme launched
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The World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF) and the South African Sugar Association (Sasa) have made public their partnering in a project to help small-scale rural farmers in the Amatikulu catchment to improve their sugarcane yields while reducing...
By: Darren Parker
30 Oct 09
SUGAR
Sugar prices expected to rise, says SA association
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The world sugar price would depend heavily on India's position in the market come March 2010, South African Sugar Association (Sasa) executive director Trix Trikam said on Thursday, in Durban.
From the 2007/8 season to the 2009/10 season, India...
By: Darren Parker
15 Oct 09
RENEWABLE ENERGY
SA has signficant bioenergy production capability – academic
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South Africa has the intellectual capital and natural resources to produce renewable bioenergy to power cars, contribute to the national power grid and create thousands of jobs, according to Stellenbosch University’s Professor Johann Görgens.
By: Leandi Cameron
09 Oct 09
BIOFUELS – 2
IDC, Brazil bank deal augurs well for local bioethanol production
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South Africa edged one more step towards a fully fledged ethanol-from-sugar regime earlier this month with the signing of a cooperation agreement by the Brazilian State-owned development bank Banco Nacional de Desenvolvimento Economico e Social...
By: Darren Parker
21 Aug 09
ETHANOL
Absence of incentives hindering development of an ethanol-from-sugar industry
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Significant potential exists for a sugar cane-based renewable energy market in South Africa, but a lack of government incentives continues to hinder the market’s development, said Tongaat Hulett MD Peter Straude at the company’s results...
By: Darren Parker
14 Aug 09
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