Mills in Brazil's centre-south produced 23pc less sugar in the second half of March versus a year ago, as operations in the new sugar season got off to a slow start.
Sugar and ethanol producers in the world's largest sugar producing region crushed 4.99 million tonnes of cane in the second half of March, 33% less than a year ago, Unica said. Ethanol production fell 18% to 372 million liters in the period.
May arabica coffee rose by 1.25 cents, or 1%, to $1.28 per lb.
May raw sugar rose by 0.04 cents, or 0.3%, to 15.18 cents per lb.
May London cocoa fell by 33 pounds, or 1.95%, to 1,660 pounds a tonne, weighed partly by diminished concerns about short-term tightness in tenderable supplies.
The sugar produced at the West Minya project in the south of Egypt will be sold in the local market, which faces a deficit.
"We expect to provide 1.5 million tons of beet in May and June, which will enable us to produce about 170,000 tons of sugar during that period," Islam Salem told Reuters.