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Hundreds of farmers drove their tractors through Paris on Wednesday to amplify their demand to be allowed to use banned pesticides on sugar beets and other crops to ensure “food sovereignty” for France. It is reported by Reuters. Entering the French capital through a southern gateway, the farmers’ convoy rolled to the gold-domed Invalides monument, site of Napoleon’s tomb. The farme...

Europe's second-largest sugar group Nordzucker ended its beet harvest and processing with losses due to difficult weather conditions in several regions. It is reported by Market Screener. Tight energy supplies also posed particular challenges in 2022, manager Alexander Godow said Monday at the company's headquarters in Braunschweig. The company...

American Crystal Sugar is closing its beet processing plant in Sidney, Montana. It is reported by kfgo.com. The Moorhead-based cooperative said at the close of 2023 acreage contracting, the growers of the Montana-Dakota Beet Growers Association showed there is no longer a...

Lviv region finished 2022/2023 sugar-refining season, which began in September. It is reported by Lviv Regional Military Administration. During the season, almost 1.1 million tonnes of sugar beets were processed, from which 158.5 thousand tonnes of sugar were produced or 19.5%...

French sugar producer Tereos said on Wednesday that two Romanian investors would take over the cooperative's loss-making sugar business in the country, which it had planned to close for over a year as part of a wider strategy to reduce debt. It is reported by Nasdaq. The buyers are Mihaela Neagu and Mihail-Daniel Matache, investors in the agri-food sector, it said in a statement. Neagu was quoted as saying they did not plan to cut j...

A global sugar deficit of 1.01 million tonnes is projected for the 2023/24 season, ending a run of three successive surpluses, analyst Green Pool said on Tuesday in its initial forecast for the crop year. It is reported by Nasdaq. The Australia-based sugar and biofuels analyst's report said that it expect global production to falter, particularly in India, Pakistan and the European Union. Consum...

Sugar mills in India’s top producing state Maharashtra are set to stop cane crushing 45 to 60 days earlier than last year as heavy rain has curtailed sugar cane availability, a senior state government official told on Friday. It is reported by Business Recorder. The western state of Maharashtra, which accounts for more than a third of the country’s sugar output, could produce 12.8 million tonnes of sugar in the 20...

Vinnytsia farmers plan to increase the sugar beet sown area by 27% in 2023 compared to 2022, the head of Regional Military Administration, Serhiy Borzov, said on Facebook. «In Vinnytsia region, the structure of the cultivated area will change slightly in terms of a decrease in the area under grain crops (from 49,7% to 43,7%) and an increase under technical crops (...

France's second-largest sugar maker, Cristal Union, said on Friday it was raising the target price that it will pay for sugar beets in 2023 after France dropped plans allowing growers to use a pesticide banned over risks to bees. It is reported by Nasdaq. The cooperative, which has 9,000 members, said it aimed to pay 45 euros ($48.99) per tonne of beets in 2023, up from 40 euros, premium included, paid for the 2022 crop. Pr...

During October-December 2022, «Astarta» reduced sugar sales by 27,7%, compared to the same period of 2021. It is stated in the company's report for the 4th quarter of 2022, published on the website of the Warsaw Stock Exchange. During the specified period, sugar sales amounted to 62,1 thousand tonne...