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In the current 2021/2022 financial year (September 1, 2021 - August 31, 2022), Ukraine produced 1,450,000 tonnes of sugar, or 130.5% of the production of the previous financial year. Sugar was produced by 33 sugar factories. According to the sugar supply and demand balance calculated by the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine, the transitional balance at the beginning of the 2021/2022 marketing year is estimat...

In the second quarter of 2022, «Astarta-Kyiv» agri-industrial holding sold 14% more sugar than in the first quarter. It is stated in the company's press release published on the Warsaw Stock Exchange. During the specified period, «Astarta» sold 63.1 thousand tonnes of sugar, while it is noted that...

«Volochysk-Agro» LLC, which is a part of «Astarta-Kyiv» agricultural holding, expects a good sugar beet harvest this year and applies plant protection products to the crop. This is reported on the company's Facebook page. There is enough time before the start of this year's "sweet" season, and, like all crops, sugar beets are paid attention and...

Tanzanian authorities announced measures they were taking to boost the production of sugarcane that will lead to ending sugar scarcity in the East African nation. It is reported by The Print. Hussein Bashe, the minister of Agriculture, said the measures included the construction of irrigation schemes for small-scale sugarcane growers in sugarcane growing reg...

Brazilian mills are expected to produce only 200,000 tonnes more sugar in the 2022/23 season (April-March) despite a better sugarcane crop, as a larger part of the cane will be used to make ethanol, investment bank Itau BBA said on Friday. It is reported by hellenicshippingnews. The bank’s agricultural research arm projected Brazil’s centre-south (CS) sugar production at 32.2 million tonnes in 2022/23 versus 32 milli...

The first physical connection of the plant's capacities to gas distribution networks and the production of biomethane in Ukraine will take place in early 2023. It was announced by Bioenergy Association of Ukraine (UABIO) on its Facebook page. «Gals Agro» is a member of UABIO and one of the largest players in the bioenergy market in U...

Brazil's center-south sugarcane crushing came in below market expectations late in June, data from industry group Unica showed on Tuesday, with sugar output falling from last year as mills kept betting on ethanol and yields remained under pressure. It is reported by Successful Farming. Crushing totaled 41.87 million tonnes in the second half of June, down 7.9% from a year earlier, while analysts polled by financial information provider S&...

India has extended by two weeks a deadline for the export of 800,000 tonnes of sugar as annual monsoon rains make it tough for many producers to move stocks from factories to ports, the government said on Friday. It is reported by The Economic Times. Last month, the world's biggest producer of the sweetener gave its mills until July 5 to export the sugar, but some mills missed doing so because of heavy...

Europe's largest sugar producer Suedzucker (SZUG.DE) on Thursday posted a rise of about 230% in quarterly earnings and confirmed increased profit forecasts for its new fiscal year despite the impact of the war in Ukraine. It is reported by Reuters. Suedzucker said operating profits in the first quarter of its new 2022/23 year starting on March 1 rose to some 163 million euros ($166.23 million) from 49 million euros...

«Agrarian front: strategy of the victory» — the meeting of «Ukrprominvest-Agro» team with partners in sugar beet cultivation took place under this leitmotif. It is reported on the company's Facebook-page. More than 70 agricultural producers gathered in Vinnytsia at the invitation of UPI-AGRO to talk about the prospects of growing sugar beet, familia...