Vietnam: Big surplus sends sugar prices plunging

HA NOI � A sugar surplus of 400,000 tonnes, as well as a Ministry of Industry and Trade move to allow some major beverage companies to use imported sources of sugar, is causing the bottom to drop out of the domestic sugar market and creating difficulties for both cane farmers and sugar mills in the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta region, according to the Viet Nam Sugar and Cane Association. The Ministry

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