News of Ukraine

On March 28, UPI-AGRO started 2024 sugar beet sowing campaign. It is reported by the company on its Facebook page. It is planned to allocate 23.4 thousand hectares for sugar beets cultivation this year. Pogrebyshchensk branch began the work, the soils of which...

Ukraine began 2024 sugar beet sowing campaign. It is reported by press service of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine. Poltava region is the leader among sugar beet sowing — 10,2 thousand hectares have already been so...

«Astarta»’s agricultural subsidiaries started the 2024 planting season. Farmers in Poltava region were the first to begin sugar beet sowing. It is reported by press-service of the company. This year’s projected structure of the crop mix is as follows: sugar beet – 39kha, soybeans – 65kha, winter wheat – 49kha (in...

Since the beginning of March, Ukraine has significantly increased its sugar exports to African countries. In particular, to Cameroon, Libya and Guinea. It was announced by the First Deputy Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine Taras Vysotskyi, press service of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine reported. «Ukra...

In Ternopil region «Zolota Nyva» PE cultivates more than 1.5 thousand hectares, on which seven to eight agricultural crops are grown: wheat, corn, soybeans, sunflower, winter rapeseed, spring brewing barley and sugar beets. Crop rotation is not shuffled here in favor of one or another crop that "shot" the previous season. As the experience of the farm shows, every year s...

«Agro-Orms» LLC, which is a part of A`SPIK Group, has started preparatory field work. Currently, the agricultural enterprise is preparing the soil for spring crops and sugar beet sowing. It is stated on the company's Facebook page. «Plowing is now underway. We have to process about 400 hectares more of than the planned area, — says Oleg Frankov, the chief agronomist...

«Volyn-Zerno-Produkt» company is considering the possibility of organizing sugar transportation through Europe by transit in order to export it to the Asian market. Yevhen Dudka, the founder of «Volyn-Zerno-Produkt», told Latifundist.com about this. «We are now looking at this possibility, taking into account the balance of sugar produced and...

The European Commission allowed Ukraine to export 320,000 tonnes of sugar to the countries of the bloc in 2024. Last year, this figure was 500,000 tonnes. Vyacheslav Chuk, commercial director of «Astarta-Kyiv», told about this at Agro Ukraine Summit, Latifundist.com reported. «This limits Ukraine and the industry from the point...

Despite the challenges of the war, the agricultural sector of Zhytomyr region was able to maintain stability, especially in sugar beet cultivation and sugar production segment. It is reported by zhitomir-online. In 2023, the area devoted to sugar beet cultivation was increased six times, compared to the previous year, which indicates the growth of investments in this...

The introduction of restrictions on sugar export to the European Union will have a negative impact on the sugar industry of Ukraine in general and may lead to the closure of a number of sugar factories, said Acting Chairman of the Board of the National Association of Sugar Producers of Ukraine «Ukrtsugar» Nazar Mykhailovyn in a comment to «Interfax-Ukraine». «This will have a very detrimental effect on Ukrainian sugar producers, as we have an export-oriented sugar industry. We hoped to be able to export sugar, thereby preserving and developing our i...