Omnicane Mauritius Sees 2016 Sugar-Output Drop on Late Harvest
- Production may fall as much as 6% to 180,000 tons this year
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Omnicane Ltd., Mauritius’s biggest sugar producer, expects its output of the sweetener to fall to 180,000 metric tons this year due to slow-maturing cane, Chief Executive Officer Jacques d’Unienville said.
The company in the Indian Ocean island nation that’s aiming to be a regional sugar hub produced 191,076 tons of refined sugar in 2015. The whole country’s output could rise 9.3 percent this year to 400,000 tons, d’Unienville said in an interview in the capital, Port Louis.