date:Jul 26, 2012
in a report.
India's monsoon, which brings more than 70 per cent of the country's annual rainfall, was 22 per cent lower than a 50-year average since June 1, the weather bureau said July 15. A similar rainfall deficit in 2009 resulted in output there falling by 5 million tons, according to Paul Bannister, head of the sugar brokerage at Marex Spectron Group in London.
Wet weather has delayed the harvest in Brazil's centre south, the main growing region of the world's top producer. Brazil's whit