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Astarta completed the 2025 processing season, which became the 26th in its history and the 168th in the history of its Zhdanivskyi Sugar Plant — one of Ukraine’s longest-operating sugar production facilities, established in December 1852. This is reporte by press-center of the company. Throughout the campaign, Astarta’s five sugar plants produced 361kt of sugar — similar to the 2024 output (380kt), despite unfavorable ex...

Despite the reduction in sugar beet acreages in 2025, Vinnytsia farmers received higher crop yields. The average indicator increased by 78 centners/ha compared to the previous year and amounted to 48 t/ha, compared to 40,2 t/ha in 2024. This allowed to harvest more than 2.2 million tonnes of sugar beets. This is reported by Vinnytsia Regional Military Administration. The main difficulties of the production season were associated with unfavorable weather conditions. Excessive rainfall complicated th...

In the 2025 calendar year, Ukraine exported 463.7 thousand tonnes of sugar worth $222 million. 73% of the exported volume was directed to the global market, 27% — to the markets of the EU countries (in 2024 this ratio was 60/40%, respectively). The main buyers of Ukrainian sugar in 202...

In 2025, Vinnytsia sugar factories produced 290 thousand tonnes of sugar. This volume indicates the stable operation of processing enterprises and high level of sugar beet yield in the season. This is reported by AgroWeek. Vinnytsia region traditionally remains one of the leaders in Ukrainian sugar industry. The capacities of local factories allow for the efficient processing of large vo...

Farmers of Poltava region have completed sugar beet harvesting campaign. The total gross harvest amounts to almost 1.2 million tonnes from the area of ​​26.5 thousand hectares. This is reported by acting head of Poltava regional military administration Volodymyr Kohut, poltava.cc reports. According to him, sugar beet crop is fully sufficient to meet the region's...

Cherkasy region comletes the harvesting campaign. This is reported by Department of Agricultural Development of Cherkasy Regional Military Administration. Farms of the region continue sugarbeet harvesting, which have been harvested from 8.8 t...

In Zhytomyr region, sugar season took place in conditions of a significant reduction in the sown areas. All sugar beet processing in the region is concentrated at the only operating factory, which is located in the village of Andrushky, Zhytomyr district. This it reported by Regional State Administration. This year, farmers in the region sowed only 4.8 thousand hectares of sugar beets. This is a significant reduction, since last season 6.7 thousand...

Over 1 million tonnes of sugar beets are harvested in Poltava region. This is reported by Poltava Regional Military Administration. The sugar beet harvesting is almost completed. 1.14 million tonnes of sweet roots are harvested from 26.5 thousand hectares. «...

As of December 1, 26 sugar factories, members of the National Association of Sugar Producers of Ukraine, processed 8 million 360 thousand tonnes of sugar beets and produced 1 million 250 thousand tonnes of sugar. The current sugar yield reaches 15.02% (last season — 14.11%), which is explained, in particular, by the higher sugar content upon acceptance — 17.48% (+0.71% compared to the 2024 figure)....

The sugar beet harvesting campaign was completed in Volyn region. This year, work was carried out on the area of ​​9 thousand hectares. In total, 578.5 thousand tonnes of sugar beets were harvested with the average yield of 65 t/ha. This is reported by Volyn Regional State Administration. Processing is provided by two enterprises — Gnidava and Maryanivka sugar factories. Since the beginning of the season, they have alrea...