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As of April 20, 54,000 hectares of sugar beets were sown in Ukraine. It is reported by press-service of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy ad Food of Ukraine. Farmers of 10 regions began 2023 sugar beet sowing campaign: Vinnytsia, Volyn, Zhytomyr, Kyiv, Lviv, Poltava,...

In 2022, Astarta's share in sugar market amounted to 21%. This is reported in the company's 2022 annual report. Despite the constant challenges caused by the full-scale war, Astarta’s team continues to strengthen its operations, supply products...

Indian mills produced 31.1 million tonnes of sugar since the current season began on Oct. 1, a fall of 5.4% year on year, as many mills closed early due to limited availability of sugar cane, a leading trade body said on Tuesday. It is reported by The Economic Times. Lower sugar output from India, the world's biggest producer of the sweetener, will leave hardly any surplus for additional exports during the current 2022/...

Europe’s largest sugar producer Suedzucker on Tuesday posted a rise of around 112% in full-year earnings as the company returned to profit from four years of losses in its sugar sector and predicted higher prices would continue to boost results. It is reported by Reuters. Preliminary operating profit in the fiscal year to end February rose to 704 million euros ($771.72 million) from 332 million euros in the previous year, Suedzucker said i...

As of mid-April, Ukrainian farmers planted almost 33,000 hectares of sugar beets. It is reported by the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine. Farmers of Vinnytsia, Volyn, Rivne, Ternopil, Khmelnytsk, Cherkasy region started sugar beet sowing, 32.7 thousand hectar...

China's sugar output from October 2022 to September 2023 is expected to reach 9 million tons, according to a Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs report. It is reported by China Daily. The projected output was down 330,000 tons from the previous forecast made last month, according to the report released by Chinese Agricultural Supply and Demand Esti...

Agrarians of Poltava region began sugar beet planting. It is reported by Department of Agri-Industrial Development of Poltava Regional State Administration. So far, 5.7 thousand hectares of sugar beets have been sown in the region. This year, 1...

«Agrofirma «named after Dovzhenko» of «Astarta-Kyiv» agri-industrial holding began sowing of sugar beets, strategic crop for the company, for which more than 8.5 thousand hectares were allocated this year. It is reported in «Nasha Astarta» Facebook-group. Although the weather is not very favorable for our farmers, the team of professionals took advantage of every sunny day and after...

In Thailand sugar cane output is lower than forecast for this crop year, with an increase of just 1.9% to 93.8 million tonnes due to drought and more farmers switching to cultivating cassava, says the Office of the Cane and Sugar Board (OCSB).  It is reported by Bangkok Post. «The government previously expected the amount of sugar cane would exceed 100 tonnes in the 2022-23 crop year», — said Panuwat Triyangkunsri,...

Farmers in France, the European Union's biggest crop producer, are expected to cut back on sugar beet, partly in response to severe drought last year, the farm ministry said. It is reported by Nasdaq. France was among European countries hit by drought and heatwaves last summer that hurt spring-sown crops like maize and sugar beet. Among first estimates for spring cro...