date:Jun 11, 2015
Mills in the Centre South, responsible for some 90% of Brazilian sugar output, crushed 40.1m tonnes of cane in the second half of May, a significant increase on the 28.7m tonnes in the first half of the month as a seasonal upturn in processing volumes unfolds.
It was also higher than the 38.0m tonnes of cane crushed in the second half of May 2014.
Fewer days [of cane harvesting] were lost to rain, traders at Sucden Financial said.
Lowest in seven years
However, sugar output in the last half