For the 2014/15 MY, South Africa’s sugar production is estimated at 2.4 MMT (2.5 MMTRV), three percent more than in the 2013/14 MY, on the back of a higher expected sugar cane crop. Post forecasts that South Africa will have enough stocks to exports about one million MTRV of sugar in the 2014/15 MY. In the 2013/14 MY, South Africa’s sugar exports could increase by more than 100 percent to reach 760,000 MTRV. Sugar imports are expected to decline to about 250,000 MTRV in the 2014/15 MY, due to an increase in the sugar import tariff that is imminent.
