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Egypt’s Delta Sugar has contracted farmers to plant more than 114,000 feddans (118,314 acres) of sugar beet this year, an increase of around 20,000 feddans over the area planted last year, it said on Monday. It is reported by Reuters. Ahmed Abu al-Yazid, chairman of the Delta board, said in a statement that most of the area allocated for sugar beet has already been planted, with incentives to those who...

In Vinnytsia region sugar refineries produced 269,3 thousand tonnes of sugar. It is reported by Vinnytsia Regional State Administration. In total, the local refineries processed 2,05 million tonnes of sugar beet. There are five sugar refineries operating in the regio...

Mauritius reduced its forecast for sugar output this year for the third time as weather patterns aren’t favorable to sucrose formation. It is reported by Bloomberg.  The Indian Ocean island nation will probably produce 320,000 tonnes of sugar this year, the Mauritius Chamber of Agriculture said in an e-mailed statement. Its in...

As of November 22, Ukrainian agrarians practically completed sugar beet harvesting (97% of the total harvested area). It is reported by the press service of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine. 13,3 million tonnes of sugar beet were harvested from the area of 270 thousand hectares with the ave...

Brazil, traditionally the world’s top sugar producer, is poised to cede the crown to India for the first time in 16 years. It is reported by Bloomberg. Production in the Asian country this season may rise 5,2 percent — to a record 35,9 million tonnes on increasing acreage and improving yields, the U.S. Depar...

Agrarians of Chernihiv region completed sugar beet harvesting. It is reported by Agricultural Department of Chernihiv Regional State Administration. Almost 260 thousand tonnes of sugar beet were harvested from the area of 5,7 thousand hecta...

Sugar production in Britain is expected to fall to 1,05 million tonnes this season, down from the prior season’s 1,37 million tonnes, Associated British Foods (ABF) said. It is reported by Reuters. British Sugar — the only British producer of sugar from domestic beet — said in its annual results statement that the decline was due to late drilli...

Agrarians of Sumy region completed harvesting of technical crops, in particular sugar beet harvesting. It is reported by Agricultural Department of Sumy Regional State Administration. In general, 151 thousand tonnes of sugar beet were harvested with the average yield of 443 centners/h...

During the period from November 14 to 16, «Astarta» agri-industrial holding bought up 1,065 thousand of its own shares on the stock exchange. It is stated in a message of the company on the Warsaw Stock Exchange. As noted, the average price of the stock was PLN29.01 ($7.67). The total amount of the transaction amounted to about PLN120,00...

The U.S. government on Tuesday forecast world sugar production will fall about 9 million tonnes in 2018/2019 to 185,9 million tonnes, while global consumption swells to new records. It is reported by Reuters with reference to USDA report. In its biannual report the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) said the decline in global production was primarily due to Brazil, where yi...