Bangladesh Govt set to import 50,000 tons of sugar at Tk211 crore.
Ram Gopal Yadav (8 years ago)

The government is set to import 50,000 metric tons of sugar, in order to control the market and meet shortages in the country. The sugar imported through London based firm ED&F Man Sugar Limited at a rate of $470 with per ton, resulting in a total cost of Tk 211.32 crore. The retail price of sugar has now dropped to Tk56 per kg from Tk60 one month ago, while packed sugar is selling at Tk65 per kg as compared to Tk69 a month earlier. The annual demand for sugar in Bangladesh is at 1.5 million tons. About 7-8% of this is produced by 15 state-run sugar mills, while the rest is imported from the private sector.

MMTC invites bids for sale of 8,266 tonne tur, 2,963 tonne urad.
Ram Gopal Yadav (8 years ago)

MMTC Ltd has floated a tender to sell 4,211 tonne imported tur from the 2016 Malawi, Mozambique crop and 2,963 tonne urad from the 2016 Yangon, Myanmar crop. The tur and urad are lying at the Central Warehousing Corp in Virungambakkam and Madhavaram in Chennai and National Collateral Management Services Ltd’s M.K, Balaji and PKC warehouses. Bids must be submitted on Sep 19, and opened the same day. The bids remain valid for acceptance till Sep 25. In another tender, MMTC invited bids for sale of 4,055.64 tonne imported tur from Africa and 2,491.56 tonne red lentils imported from Canada.

ABARES pegs Australia 2017-18 chana crop at 1.2 million tonne, down 36% YoY.
Ram Gopal Yadav (8 years ago)

Australia chana production is seen declining 36% on year to 1.19 million tonne in 2017-18 due to a fall in average yield. Although area under chana cultivation is estimated to increase by 4.5% to 1.1 million ha in 2017-18, production is expected to fall as rainfall was below average in the most cropping regions in June and was highly variable in July and August. Most of Australia’s chana is exported to India. In the year ended June, Australia sold a record 1.1 million tonne chana to India. The country’s chana exports to India are likely to fall to 0.8-1.0 million tonne in 2017-18 (Jul-Jun), as Australia’s chana crop is expected to be much smaller on year.

India Sugar prices fall more in north on weak demand.
Ram Gopal Yadav (8 years ago)

Prices of sugar continued to fall in the key wholesale markets of north India due to sluggish demand from bulk buyers. Most importantly, there is no demand. Also, production of sugar in Uttar Pradesh is expected to be higher next year. Sugar output in Uttar Pradesh is likely to rise to a record 10.3 million tonne in the next season starting October from 8.8 million tonne year ago. In the key wholesale markets of Maharashtra, sugar prices were largely unchanged amid lacklustre trade.

ICRA says sugar import at 25% duty may not pull-down prices.
Ram Gopal Yadav (8 years ago)

The government decision to allow import of 300,000 tonne of sugar at a concessional duty of 25% is unlikely to have any significant negative impact on prices of the sweetener in the near term, as the quantum of import permitted is very small. Including the 300,000 tonne of imported sugar, the closing stocks for current season are estimated to be around 4.7 million tonne, which would just be sufficient to meet the requirement of around two months of domestic consumption. The expected carryover stock for 2017-18 was lower than the normative stock level of three months–around 6 million tonne–and last year’s closing stock of 7.8 million tonne. The move to allow imports might also benefit the sugar mills based in west and south India, which are currently under profitability pressure due to low availability of cane.