World sugar production for the 2010/11 marketing year is forecast at 164 million tons, raw value, up 12 million from the revised 2009/10 estimate. Consumption is forecast at a record 158 million tons, up 4 million from a year earlier. Exports are forecast at record 54 million tons, up 3 million; and ending stocks are forecast at 27 million tons, up 500,000 tons. Detailed review of Ukrainian sugar market is presented in the latest research "Ukrainian Sugar Market Analysis" by Agency of Industrial News.

The research is devoted to Ukrainian market of natural chalk and current standing of producers of the product in Ukraine.

The report gives brief characteristics of Ukrainian market of chalk, estimates volumes of production, and presents the prices on chalk. It also describes foreign trade operations, presents data on volumes of supplies of chalk in bulk and monetary terms, estimates regional pattern of foreign trade operations, describes directions and volumes of chalk supplies of importers and exporters.

It also provides information on domestic consumption of chalk, supply-demand balance of chalk in the country.

The last part of the report presents forecast of chalk market development up to 2012.