Governments urged to act on sugar prices

Updated July 20 2018 - 1:49pm, first published 12:33pm

Subsidies in Pakistan and India have encouraged canegrowers to increase production with no regard to market demand.

- David Rynne, Australian Sugar Milling Council.

AUSTRALIA is among a numbers of countries calling for Pakistan, India and the European Union to eliminate subsidies that have created a glut of sugar and caused a collapse in world prices.

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