Sugar fell for a fourth day in London on speculation supplies will be enough to meet demand due to expanding crops in Europe and India, the world’s second- largest producer. Coffee advanced. Sugar production in India may surge to 25.83 million metric tons, the highest level in four years, a compilation of estimates by sugar cane commissioners of 10 states including Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra, the biggest growers, show. Europe’s crop for the season starting Oct. 1 will be 30 million tons, the highest since 2005-06, F.O. Licht estimates. “The supportive effects of recent concerns about lower Brazilian sugar output were offset by better output figures for India Australia and Europe for the coming season,” Lysu Paez, an analyst at Natixis SA in Paris, said in a report e-mailed yesterday. White, or refined, sugar for December delivery slipped $5.30, or 0.8 percent, to $634.70 a ton by 10:44 a.m. on NYSE Liffe in London. Raw sugar for March delivery dropped 0.1 percent to 24.79 cents a pound on ICE Futures U.S. in New York. The price fell as much as 5.8 percent yesterday. The sugar cane crop in Brazil’s main producing region will drop for the first time in a decade to 510.2 million tons in the 2011-12 season, according to industry group Unica. The South American country is the world’s largest producer of sugar. White sugar has fallen 14 percent in London and 5.5 percent in New York in the third quarter. Indian Exports India may have an exportable surplus of 4 million tons in the year starting Oct. 1 as output surges, according to the National Federation of Cooperative Sugar Factories Ltd. Robusta coffee and cocoa climbed as commodities advanced as G-20 officials said after talks in Washington they were “committed to a strong and coordinated international response to address the renewed challenges facing the global economy.” The S&P GSCI index of 24 commodities rose as much as 0.8 percent. Robusta coffee for November delivery advanced $22, or 1.1 percent, to $2,048 a ton on NYSE Liffe. Arabica coffee for December delivery rose 2.05 cents, or 0.9 percent, to $2.4130 a pound in New York. Robusta coffee stockpiles in warehouses monitored by NYSE Liffe were 378,210 metric tons as of Sept. 19, down from 388,940 tons two weeks earlier, according to figures on the exchange’s website yesterday. Cocoa for December climbed 5 pounds, or 0.3 percent, to 1,778 pounds ($2,748) a ton in London. Cocoa for December delivery was up $22, or 0.8 percent, to $2,702 a ton in New York. To contact the reporter on this story: Isis Almeida in London at Ialmeida3@bloomberg.net To contact the editor responsible for this story: Claudia Carpenter at Ccarpenter2@bloomberg.net.

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