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As of September 1, 4б3 mln t of sugar beet are harvested and 530 ths. t of sugar are produced, reports Soyuzrossahar. Over the past week, two more plants began sugar beet processing in Kursk and Voronezh regions. For the current date 46 of 75 sugar refineries operate.

Brazilian mills reduced the amount of cane they use to produce sugar in the first half of August, increasing the use of the raw material for ethanol production as demand and prices for the biofuel improved, cane industry group Unica said. Reuters reports about it. Mills in Brazil’s center-south region, the country’s main cane belt, earmarked 50,04 percent of cane in the first half of August to sugar production, the small...