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In 2020, six sugar factories processed sugar beets in Vinnytsia region. Four of them finished the production season by the end of last year. Just before the holidays, the last tonnes of sugar were produced at Tomashpil refinery. Earlier, the work was completed at «Yuzepho-Mykolaiv Agroindustrial Company» LLC, Zhdanivka Sugar Refinery and «Illinetsky Tsykrovy Zavod»...

According to the head of the enterprise Vasyl Kotsupyra, in 2020, the company's specialists managed to harvest more than 720 thousand tonnes of sugar beets. PE "Western Bug" reports about it on its Facebook-page. Today the company cultivates 64 thousand hectares.  Sugar beet is the main technical crop grown by the company. Last y...

Four sugar factories produced enough sugar for the domestic needs of Khmelnytsk region. The director of Department of development of the industrial complex of Khmelnytsk regional state administration Oleg Omelyanyuk told about it, «Publichne» reported. During the...

Vinnytsia region completes sugar refining season. It is reported by «Den'» newspaper. Currently, three of six sugar factories in the region have already completed sugar production (Zhdanivka Sugar Refinery, &laq...

Britain will ban “buy one get one free” promotions for food high in fat, sugar or salt and free refills of sugary soft drinks in restaurants from April 2022, the government said on Monday, its latest step in its plan to tackle obesity and improve public health. It is repoorted by Reuters. The government says obesity is one of Britain’s biggest long-term public health problems with almost two-thirds of adults in England overweight and one in three ch...

Lviv region completed sugar refining season. «Radekhivskyi Sugar» LLC reached a processing capacity of over 7,5 thousand tonnes per day. During the season, almost 800 thousand tonnes of sugar beets were processed, 100,4 thousand tonnes of sugar were produced. The sugar yield amounted to 12,6%. It is reported by «Golos Sokalschyny». This year, the sugar beet sown area increased by 1,6 thousand hectares — to 12,6 thousand hectares. As a result, more than 780 thousand...

Poltava region completed sugar refining season and the local factories produced 192 thousand tonnes of sugar. It is reported by «Uriadovyi Kurier». Since the beginning of sugar production (on September 7), four sugar factories of Poltava region have processed 1,053 million tonnes of sugar...

A government decision to allow 260,000t of raw cane sugar into the UK tariff-free could spell the end of the British sugar beet sector, say farm leaders. It is reported by Farmers Weekly. The tariff-free import quota will apply annually from 1 January – after the end of the Brexit transition period. NFU Sugar board chairman Michael Sly has...

Indian government on Friday permitted export of 8,424 tonnes of raw sugar under its tariff-rate quota (TRQ) to the US, which enables shipments to enjoy relatively low tariff. It is reported by The Economic Times. «The quantity of raw sugar 8,424 MTRV (metric ton raw value) to be exported to the US under TRQ up to September 30, 2021, is notified», &mdash...