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Web Links: Sugar
General resources
University of Sydney Library Catalogue
Some recommended subject headings on the University of Sydney Library Catalogue are:
Australian resources
Sugar Australia
The homepage for Sugar Australia, which provides background information about the Company and the Australian sugar industry including information on sugar processing, products and market information.
Sugar Research and Development Corporation (SRDC)
The homepage for the Sugar Research and Development Corporation (SRDC). The site contains overviews of the Australian sugar industry and the SRDC and details on how to apply for research funding. Information on R&D programs, current and completed projects, publications and case studies are also provided. (all .pdf documents).
CRC for Sugar Industry Innovation through Biotechnology
"Established on 1 July 2003 under a seven-year joint research agreement, the Cooperative Research Centre for Sugar Innovation through Biotechnology has its Head Office based at The University of Queensland in Brisbane.
Our mission is to combine Australia's strengths in molecular genetics, sugarcane biology, agriculture, and industrial extraction to construct the essential platform of scientific understanding, intellectual property, and commercial linkages that will underpin a value-added sugarcane industry."
The Bureau of Sugar Experiment Stations (BSES) Limited
The BSES Limited operates seven Sugar Experiment Stations and 10 Extension Centres in each of the major canegrowing districts and its head office is located in Brisbane. The BSES Limited is the Australian sugar industry's principal provider of research, development and extension. Included on the site is access to the 2000 annual report and to information sheets on pests/diseases, weeds, quarantine, land care and management of sugar cane (all in .pdf format). Access is also provided to media releases from 1999 onwards, a list of publications, information on BSES innovations and related links.
Industry Commission submission on the Australian sugar industry
This submission provides an overview of the Australian sugar industry focusing on regulatory arrangements applying in Queensland, statutory marketing of Queensland sugar and the tariff on raw and refined sugar. The submission was commissioned by the Queensland and Commonwealth Governments in 1995 and undertaken by the Sugar Industry Review Working Party. The findings and recommendations of the Industry Commission's 1992 report (now Productivity Commission) are outlined and developments since the report are reviewed and analysed.
FAS Online
This website by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) (Horticultural & Tropical Products Division) provides access to information on the three USDA sugar import programs, raw sugar tariff rate quota, publications such as circulars/presentations and country reports (.pdf format). Also included is trade data, production information and links to price information and other related websites.
Sugar Notes
(.pdf document)
The Queensland Sugar Corporation has produced this 84-page .pdf document on the Australian sugar industry. It contains in depth information on the Australian sugar industry including a summary of the industry, agricultural aspects, milling, bulk handling, refining, world trade, export and domestic marketing, government involvement and information on industry organisations. Also included is information on research and development, nutrition, history, statistics, a glossary of terms and an appendix containing industry addresses.
Sugar online.com
All of the sites contained within Sugaronline.com are wholly owned by Commodity Systems Ltd. (CSL), a UK based company. The site provides access to subscription services such as the sugar trading system, live online sugar stream prices and specialist reports covering sugar issues in the US, Mexico, China, Thailand and Russia. Market & technical analysis and bulk and container freight indications are also available. Access, via email registration, is provided to free services such as the futures markets prices/charts supplied by Future Source/Bridge, the Dow Jones Sugar Market News, links to global websites and access to abstracts from the Sugaronline journal via a search facility some full-text articles are available online.
Sugar: the taste test of trade liberalisation
(.pdf document)
This 37-paged report was produced by Brent Borrell and David Pearce, Centre for International Economics Canberra & Sydney in September 1999 for the 'Conference on agriculture and new trade agenda from a development perspective held on 1-2 October 1999 in Geneva. This report discusses multilateral trade liberalisation of the world's sugar markets and the effect this would have on developed countries by using the Global Sweetener Markets Model produced by CSR Australia.
International Resources
Farm Service Agency Online
A recently redesigned website which includes a report on sweetener market data"Sugar and Sweeteners Outlook", compiled by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Economic Research Service (ERS) and the Farm Service Agency (FSA). It includes archived documents back to the 1990s and later monthly reports on the production, distribution, supply and use of US sugar and other products.
Organisations and Associations
Queensland Cane Growers Organisation Ltd (known as CANEGROWERS)Australian Cane Farmers
Queensland Sugar Limited
New South Wales Sugar Milling Co-operative
Bureau of Sugar Experiment Stations
Sugar Research Institute
CRC Sugar