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The Agriculture Minister of Tanzania, Hussein Bashe, told the parliament that the government has set aside 400 hectares of land to grow sugarcane seedlings. These seedlings will be given to sugarcane farmers to help increase sugar production in the country, reported News Ghana. Bashe said that the Sugar Board of Tanzania has partnered with the Tanzania Prisons Production Corporation to grow sugarcane seedlings in Turiani, Morogoro Region. Currently, Tanzania produces abou...

U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) in a report-Sugar Annual- released for Thailand highlights forecast for 2024-25 season. It is reported by chinimandi. According to the report, it forecasts MY 2024-25 sugarcane production to recover from a 12 percent reduction in MY 2023-24. Sugar production in MY 2024-25 is expe...

Agrarians of Cherkasy region finished sugar beet sowing campaign. It is reported by press service of Cherkasy Regional State Administration. In particular, the area of 15,000 hectares or 100% of the planned was planted with sugar beets.

Ukraine completes 2024 sugar beet sowing campaign. It is reported by press service of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine. As of May 2, Ukrainian agricultural producers planted sugar beets on the area of 248.4 thousand hectares.

European farmers planted slightly more sugar beet this year, encouraged by high sugar prices, but the harvest is uncertain after heavy rain delayed plantings and mild weather raised the risk of a devastating disease in some countries, analysts said. It is reported by xm.com. Wet soils and continuous showers delayed field work by about two weeks in the two largest producing countries France and Germany, while Poland, traditionally the third-lar...

India's sugar production has been higher than expected this year after the completion of cane crushing at most of its mills, industry officials said on Wednesday, with a late pick-up in rains raising output. It is reported by business-standard. With the majority of India's sugar mills having now completed crushing for the 2023/24 season, output so far stands at 31.59 million metric tons, accor...

The spring sowing of sugar beets has ended in Rivne region. Oleksandr Koval, the head of Rivne RMA, reported about it. Thanks to favorable weather conditions, agrarians of the region finished sugar beet sowing. By the way, sugar beets were sown on ...