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AGROPROCESSING

Illovo posts ‘disappointing’ FY results

Sugar producer Illovo Sugar posted “disappointing” financial year-end results, as weather conditions and currency movements depressed the group’s financial performance, but cane production levels soared to a new record, the JSE-listed...

By: Brindaveni Naidoo

30 May 11

TRADING UPDATE

Tongaat Hulett expects lower FY headline earnings

JSE-listed agriprocessing company Tongaat Hulett expects to report headline earnings of R806-million for the year ended March 31, when it publishes its results on May 30, the company said on Monday. This compares with headline earnings of...

By: Mariaan Webb

16 May 11

BIOFUELS

New quality standard important step to establishing a local biofuels industry – SABS

The publication of new South African National Standard SANS 833, entitled ‘Biodiesel production – Quality management – Producer requirements’, is an important step towards creating a local biodiesel industry.

Alternative fuels

SA’s jobs push is putting biofuels back on the radar

Despite rising food prices and the ongoing food-versus-fuel debate, biofuels are back on the South African agenda - revived by their inclusion in an emerging economic policy framework and their perceived potential for rural job creation.

By: Eleanor Seggie

25 Mar 11

Sugar

Global food prices continue to rise

The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) reports that prices for all categories of food are expected to be significantly higher in the period between 2010 and 2019, compared with those between 1997 and 2006.

FOOD PRICES

The impact of higher food prices on South Africa’s inflation remains highly uncertain

The food price index rose to 215 points in December 2010, statistics released by the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations show, with food commodity prices indices havaing risen for sugar to 398 points, for oils and fats to...

By: Eleanor Seggie

28 Jan 11

BIOENERGY

Developer initiates study into $330m Moz bioenergy project

A newly established Mozambican agroindustrial company has issued a request for expressions of interest (EoI) from consulting engineering companies to carry out a study into a possible $330-million bioenergy and food project in the Southern African...

By: Terence Creamer

22 Nov 10

AGROPROCESSING

Illovo says drought and strong rand impacting on output and earnings

JSE-listed sugar producer Illovo expects its sugar output for the 2011 financial year to be similar to the 1,7-million tons of sugar produced in the year ended March 31, 2010, but warned that its earnings would be lower, owing to foreign exchange...

By: Chanel de Bruyn

18 Nov 10

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