Sugar output in China's
major sugar producing areas in 2017/18 will be higher than in 2016/17. More
importantly, China's sugar output increases are mainly driven by higher yield.
However, especially the most important production area Guangxi Province shows
an output decline. CCM analysis the key production areas in China for the
current harvesting season.
China is the world’s third-largest sugar producing country right after Brazil and India. Looking at the raw materials, sugarcane contributed more than 90 % of the total sugar production in the recent decade. In fact, sugarcane is a major crop in southern China, especially in the key sugar production areas Guangxi, Yunnan and Guangdong. Of them, Guangxi is the dominant sugarcane and sugar production base in China.
Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region:
Enterprises in this region squeezed 38.40 million tonnes sugarcane, up 280,000 tonnes YoY. The total sugar output was 4.49 million tonnes, down 52,000 tonnes YoY. As of February 28, 3 locally-based sugar factories have suspended sugar production, namely Guangxi Hepu Xichang, Guangxi Laibin and Guangxi State Farms Sugar Group, while the remaining 88 were still in operation.
As of February 28, altogether 56 sugar factories in Yunnan have started sugar production for 2017/18, the same number of last extracting season. The amount of squeezed sugarcane reached 7.73 million tonnes, a small increase to the 7.16 million tonnes last year. Sugar output also increased significantly from 940,800 tonnes, compared to the previous 865,500 tonnes.
As of February 28, Guangdong has squeezed 6.95 million tonnes of sugarcane, a slight increase to the 6.60 million tonnes in the same period of last extracting season. Sugar output also grew to 641,300 tonnes, from. 608,600 tonnes.
COFCO Tunhe Xinyuan kicked off local sugarcane production for 2017/18 on 20 Sept. 2017, and Xinjiang Lvhua Sugar ended local sugar production on February 18. As of the end of February, the amount of squeezed beet was 4.44 million tonnes with a sugar output of 541,100 tonnes.
The amount of squeezed sugarcane has been 1.16 million tonnes, up 119,700 tonnes YoY. The sugar output reached 135,200 tonnes, up 16,000 tonnes YoY. In February alone, Hainan produced 32,300 tonnes of sugar and sold 8,100 tonnes YoY. On February, 4 locally-based sugar factories have suspended sugar production and another 7 were still in operation.
The production suspension of Botian Sugar on 28 February indicated the end of local sugar production. The province is expecting to produce about 480,000 tonnes of sugar in the 2017/18 extracting season.
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