Berlin, June 17 - Chinese sugar output in 2009 is expected to be 11.6-12.2 million tonnes, depending on the weather, Mark Hazlehurst, business development director, China, for British Sugar Overseas, said on Wednesday.
He told the F.O. Licht World Sugar conference that overall Chinese demand was 14.0-14.3 million tonnes, and the country had strategic stocks of over 2 million tonnes. He gave no previous-year figures.
British Sugar Overseas, which is the fifth-biggest sugar producer in China, is a unit of Associated British Foods . BSO produced 800,000 tonnes of sugar in China in 2007/8, Hazlehurst said.