Data released today by Brazil’s Sugarcane Industry Association, UNICA, showed that the volume of cane harvested in Brazil’s main South-Central region fell to 36.1 million tonnes, from 40.5 million in the second half of September. This was 8% lower than the same period last year and below analysts’ expectations of 36.8 million tonnes in an industry survey which estimated that 2.6 days were lost to rain.
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