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In Vinnytsia region, sugar refineries completed 2020/2021 production season. It is reported by 20minut.ua with reference to the regional department of agro-industrial development. 264 thousand tonnes of sugar were prouced from beets grown in 2020. In 2019, 331 thousand...

The UK government is facing backlash after it approved the emergency use of a pesticide thought to kill bees. It is reported by EcoWatch. In 2018, the EU widened a ban on neonicotinoid pesticides because of their impact on bees and other pollinators. At the time, the UK government...

India plans to achieve 20% ethanol-blending with gasoline by 2025, five years ahead of its previous target, to help reduce its dependence on costly oil imports, the government said on Thursday. It is reported by Reuters. Last year the government had set a target of reaching 10% ethanol-blending by 2022 - meaning 10% of ethanol mixed with 90% of gasoline - and 20% by 2030. India is the...

Forecast higher US beet and cane sugar production more than offset lower imports in 2020-21, raising forecast ending stocks by 111,093 short tons, raw value, and boosting the ending stocks-to-use ratio to 14.4% from 13.5% in December, the US Department of Agriculture said in its Jan. 12 World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates report. It is reported by Bakingbusiness. Total domestic sugar production in 2020-21 was forecast at 9,156,000 tons, up 195,632 tons from the December forecast and up 1,007,000 tons from 2019-20. Beet suga...

Egypt expects to produce 1 million tonnes of white sugar during 2021 season. It is reported by Egypt Today. Minister of Supply and Internal Trade, Ali al-Moselhy, met with the heads of sugar production companies, where they reviewed the areas planted with sugar crops and th...

Sugar-refining season 2020/2021 MY officially started on September, 5, 2020. September 5 — «Radekhivskyi Sugar» LLC (Radekhiv Production) September 10 — «Tsukoragroprom» LLC, Yaresky Sugar Refinery September 12 —&...

The UK government approved on Jan. 8 the industry's application for the emergency authorization of neonicotinoids on sugar beets for the 2021 season, according to the government's website. It is reported by S&P Global Platts. This will address the threat of the virus yellows on the 2021 sugar beet crop, with the government stating that the protection provided by neonics cannot be...

Egypt’s state-owned Delta Sugar aims to produce 330,000 tonnes of sugar from 2,3 million tonnes of beet this season, the supply ministry said in a statement on Saturday. It is reported by Reuters. Delta has raised its production slightly in recent years as Egypt tries to expand output of sugar beet, which consumes less of the country’s scarce Nile water than...

As of December 1, all categories of farms in Khmelnytsk region harvested 913,9 thousand tonnes of sugar beets. It is reported by Khmelnytsk Regional State Administration. Sugar beets were harvested from the area of 22,3 thousand hectares — 18,1% less than at the beginning of December la...