* March raw sugar rose 1.6% to 21.30 cents per lb by 1416 GMT after peaking at 21.31 cents - the highest level for the front month since February 2017.
* Dealers said the potential for more Indian exports had been dented by crop concerns, which have centered on the top producing state, Maharashtra.
* "The focus has been on lower Indian crop estimates and the possibility that (the) India's govt won't allow further exports for 22/23," analysts Green Pool said in a weekly update.
* Most sugar mills in the key Centre-South region of Brazil have also now wound down production for the season and are unlikely to ramp up again until late April or early May.
* March was trading at a premium to May of about 1.39 cents a lb on Monday, up from about 1.36 cents at the close on Friday.
* March white sugar rose 0.3% to $564.10 a tonne.
COFFEE
* March arabica coffee rose 0.4% to $1.7065 per lb.
* Speculators reduced their bearish bets in futures of
arabica coffee on ICE U.S. in the week to Jan. 24, data from the
Commodity Futures Trading Commission showed on Friday.
* March robusta coffee fell 0.6% to $2,040 a tonne.
* Vietnam exported 160,000 tonnes of coffee in January, down
30.9% from a year earlier, government data released on Sunday
showed.
COCOA
* March New York cocoa rose 0.6% to $2,643 a tonne.
* Cocoa arrivals at ports in top grower Ivory Coast had
reached 1.540 million tonnes by Jan. 29 since the start of the
season on Oct. 1, exporters estimated on Monday, up 5.7% from
the same period last season.
* March London cocoa rose 0.4% to 2,044 pounds a
tonne.
(Reporting by Nigel Hunt; Editing by Sharon Singleton and Arun
Koyyur)
