Sintal Agriculture (SNPS GF) said in a newsletter to investors that it completed its winter sowing campaign, planting 56 ths ha with winter wheat, a fourfold increase over the previous marketing year. The company said that it reached agreements to an additional rent 11 ths ha of arable land in October, and concluded preliminary agreements for another 27 ths ha, which would bring its total land bank to 116 ths ha by the end of 2008. Sintal also announced that its sugar plants had produced 20 ths mt of sugar during their first month of operation; and are fully supplied to make another 7 ths mt as planned this year.