date:Feb 19, 2014
Recent dry weather in Brazil has resulted in a lower sugar cane production forecast for the upcoming 2014-15 marketing year from Unica, the nations sugar cane industry association.
Antonio de Padua Rodriques, technical director of Unica, said in a Feb. 17 Dow Jones Newswires story that earlier forecasts of at least a 5% gain from 2013-14 sugar cane production in the key south central region of Brazil has been lost because of dry weather.
The region produced a record 596 million tonnes of sugar