date:Jun 12, 2014
a pound in late deals, unchanged on the day.
In London, white sugar futures for August were 0.3% higher at $461.20 a tonne, below a day high of $465.30 a tonne, when the contract was bumping up against its 10-day and 100-day moving averages.
Lower yields
Unica attributed the pullback in cane processing volumes in part to lower crop yields, mainly due to the drought in the early months of the year in the Centre South.
Yields so far in 2014-15 have averaged 77.3 tonnes per hectare, down 8.8% y