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In 2009, agricultural enterprises of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea (Ukraine) received profit on sales of agricultural products and services at the sum of 65.8 mln UAH (8.33 mln USD), with the level of profitability of 4%, a decrease of 8.2% compared to the indices of the previous year, declared the Main department of statistics of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea.

Cane production in Indonesia may rise 10 percent after farmers increased planting and raised productivity, potentially helping Southeast Asia’s biggest sugar buyer to reduce imports.

Soybeans were little changed, heading for the biggest weekly jump in two months on speculation that China will increase purchases of U.S. soybean oil after curbing imports from Argentina in a trade dispute.

Sugar tumbled more than 5 percent, leading commodities lower, after the U.S. filed a fraud suit against Goldman Sachs Group Inc., one of Wall Street’s biggest traders and brokers of raw materials.