Sugar Prices Improve on GOI Intervention It seems that the government of India (GOI) has finally heeded the sugar industry’s demand and will create a buffer stock. With the Indian Sugar Manufacturers Association now boosting its sugar production forecast to 32 MMT, 2018/19 opening stocks are projected to be over 10.8 MMT versus the 8.3 MMT estimated in the first week of April (Click here). Exports are not expected to be more than 0.2-0.3 MMT as domestic sugar prices are much higher. 2018/19 sugar production will also likely be high as it is cyclical, and this will lead to further pressure on prices as the ending stocks will further rise. GOI is formulating a plan to safeguard the sector so that as sugar prices move up, the industry...
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Communicating importance of value-added products
Facing increasing pressure to quantify the value of export promotion efforts to investors, a U.S. industry organization retained WPI to develop a quantitative model that better communicated the importance of exports. The resulting model concluded that value-added meat exports contributed $0.45 cents per bushel to the price of corn, increasing support for that sector’s financial support of WPI’s client. In addition to serving the red meat industry with this type of analysis, WPI has generated similar deliverables for the U.S. soybean and poultry/egg industries.