Sugar prices maintained the upward trend on the grain market on Tuesday amid modest trading, dealers said. On the cereals side, sugar prices gained Rs 45 to Rs 1450-1550 amid tight supply position, dealers said.

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Kansas City Board of Trade hard red winter wheat futures closed higher on Monday, rallying to three-week highs amid active fund short covering, traders said. The market settled 2 to 6 cents higher, with the

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Arabica coffee futures finished weaker on Monday, extending losses from the previous session after peaking to fresh 4-1/2-year highs last week, market players said. Speculative market players continued to roll out of the March contract

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Ukraine is likely to export a total of 4.2 million tonnes of barley in the 2004/05 July-June season and become the world's leading barley exporter, the Ukrainian grain tradeers' union UZA said on Monday. "Ukraine

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Hungary invited offers from stores in Belgium and Germany to take intervention grain for which no space has been found in Hungary, the Agriculture Ministry said. Belgian stores located at sea ports with a total

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Most cocoa futures closed modestly higher in a quiet on Monday session as a weak dollar prompted light arbitrage-related buying, traders said. With the first notice day for the March delivery on Monday, investors and

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India, the world's largest consumer of sugar, was said to have bought a few cargoes of sugar over the weekend at a sizable discount, brokers said on Monday. But other dealers said that weak internal

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The Alexandria Cotton Exporters' Association (Alcotexa) said on Monday it had committed to sell 2,034 tonnes of cotton in the week ending February 12. Alcotexa said it had committed to sell 147.5 tonnes of Giza

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Financial storm clouds are gathering in Mato Grosso state, Brazil's No 1 soya producer, as farmers approach the peak of a forecast record harvest and prospect of heavy losses. Soyabean prices have slumped 40 percent

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EU vegetable exporters may have to wait to the last minute to see if Russia bans their products due to food safety concerns, despite glimmers of hope appearing after Moscow settled its row with one

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