 Brazilian sugar and ethanol companies are likely entering their best season in a long time, with favorable weather boosting new-crop prospects and an all-time low local currency increasing returns on exports. Analysts have said 2020 could be a year of improvement for financially troubled mills hit by a long period of low global sugar prices and rising profits for more robust companies. Ample rains in recent days in most cane-producing regions in Brazils center-south should increase volumes to near record levels above 600 million tonnes in the new crop that starts in April experts said. 