Monday, July 9, 2007

Sugar Rises on Speculation Brazil Is Using More Cane to Produce Ethanol

(Bloomberg) -- Sugar futures in New York rose on
speculation mills in Brazil, the biggest producer, may turn more
of a record sugar cane crop into ethanol and make less of the
sweetener than expected.

Mills in Brazil's center-south, the main sugar cane-growing
area, have turned less than 45 percent of the crop into sugar,
said Antonio Padua, technical director of the Center-South Sugar
and Ethanol Industry Association, known as Unica. Producers may
turn 55 percent of the harvest into ethanol, he said June 25.


Read more at Bloomberg Commodities News

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