date:Jun 11, 2015
of last month, at 1.96m tonnes, fell marginally short of the 2.02m tonnes produced in the same period a year before.
In part, that was down to a weaker level of sugar in the cane harvested, at 125.0 kilogrammes per tonne of cane, down from 127.8 kilogrammes a year before.
But Unica also flagged the extent of cane turned into ethanol, at 58.8%, rather than cane.
The proportion of cane used for sugar production in the last 25 days of May this year is the lowest recorded value for the period sin