Coffee slides as long-awaited rain is forecast for Brazil
Adds comments on sugar, coffee; updates prices to settlement
NEW YORK, Oct 7 (Reuters) - Coffee futures on ICE fell sharply on Monday, with arabica sliding to a one-month low and robusta hitting a more than one-month trough, as beneficial rain was forecast in the world's largest coffee grower, Brazil.
COFFEE
* December arabica coffee KCc1 settled down 12.7 cents, or 4.9%, at $2.4465 per lb, having lost nearly 4.5% last week.
* Rain is expected in all of Brazil's major coffee regions this week, which should help trees to develop a good flowering, a key crop phase looking into 2025 production prospects, dealers said.
* It is uncertain, however, how trees would recover from the historic drought.
* "The rains should cut losses (to production), but they will not bring back the full production potential," said Brazilian brokers Carvalhaes in a weekly note.
* November robusta coffee LRCc1 fell 3.9% to $4,868 a metric ton, after falling 8% last week.
* Dealers said a prolonged continuation of rain in top robusta producer Vietnam could delay the start of the robusta harvest.
SUGAR
* March raw sugar SBc1 settled down 0.46 cent, or 2%, at 22.55 cents per lb.
* Forecasts for rain in top sugar producer Brazil are weighing on prices, dealers said, but added rains will be scattered in the sugar areas, unlike coffee.
* Limiting losses in sugar, oil prices extended gains on fears of a wider Middle East conflict.
* Rising energy prices tend to prompt sugarcane processors in Brazil and India to ramp up production of cane-based ethanol at the expense of sugar.
* Dealers also noted the strong dollar, which usually plays against agricultural futures.
* December white sugar LSUc1 fell 1.2% at $570.20 a ton.
COCOA
* March London cocoa LCCc2 settled down 68 pounds, or 1.5%, at 4,443 pounds per ton, but remained above last week's eight-month low.
* Favourable weather in top growers Ivory Coast and Ghana continues to weigh on cocoa.
* Cocoa arrivals at ports in top grower Ivory Coast fell 74% between Oct. 1 and Oct. 6 compared with a year earlier.
* Ivory Coast seized 33 trucks carrying around 1,100 tons of smuggled cocoa beans across the border with Guinea, according to two sources with the regulator.
* December New York cocoa CCc1 fell 2.3% to $6,908 a ton, having lost 15% last week.
Reporting by Maytaal Angel and Marcelo Teixeira
Editing by David Goodman, Kirsten Donovan and Shreya Biswas
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