Illovo Group Statistics
The agricultural operations generally performed satisfactorily with cane production in the 2007/08 season amounting to 5.285 million tons. A record 460 000 tons of cane was produced at Maragra in Mozambique.	Approximately 58% of cane thoughput supplied by the group's own agricultural operations and by private growers, is cultivated under irrigation. Excluding South Africa, the percentage increases to 93%.
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Group sugar production of 1.792 million tons was 4% above that of the previous season. The performance levels of factories throughout the group were generally satisfactory, with improved recoveries of sugar from cane and better operational efficiency levels.	The group supplies sugar products to domestic, preferential, regional and world markets. A significant strength of the group was that 78% of sugar production by olume and 83% by value was sold into the domestic or premium-priced export markets.
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The increase in refined sugar production in 2007/08 was attributable to the refinery upgrades at the Pongola and Noodsberg mills in South Africa.	Illovo commands a significant share of production in each of the countries in which it operates.
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