South Africa: Sugar Annual
The impact of the 2014/15 MY drought in the sugar industry is expected to continue in the 2015/16 MY. Post forecasts that the 2015/16 MY sugar cane crop will decrease marginally to 17,7 MMT from the 2014/15 MY sugar cane crop of 17,8 MMT. The 2015/16 MY sugar production of 2.0 MMT is forecasted to be sufficient to meet the domestic demand. South Africa will also have sufficient stocks to export approximately 700,000 MT in the 2015/16 MY.