The past week witnessed the Union government come up with measures planning to regulate sugar byproducts with a draft Sugar Control Order, while it is also mulling a cap on the use of sugarcane for ethanol production. Rubber prices, which had stretched to a record high, pulled back on increasing supplies, while Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology has almost ruled out the setting in of La Nina weather for now. We have also come up with further follow-up on the organic rice export “scam”.