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It is estimated that a total of 1,8 million tonnes of sugar will be produced in Iran in the current Iranian year (March 2021-22), which is sufficient to supply more than 70% of the domestic demand, according to the manager of the Agriculture Ministry’s so-called «Beetroot Project». It is reported by Financial Tribune. «This year, we produced close to 5,5 million tonnes of beetroot in spring and more than 1,4 million tonnes are predicted in autumn. This makes close to 7...

169 - this is the number of sugar-refining season that Zhdanivka Sugar Refinery began on September 14. This year the refinert was the first among «Astarta»'s sugar factories to start sugar beets processing campaign. It is reported by the company in its Facebook group «Nasha Astarta». These wonderful autumn days became significant for both farmers of «Khmilnytske» LLC and...

Hurricane Ida negatively impacted an estimated 118,000 acres of sugarcane crops in Louisiana, or about 26% of the crop that would be harvested for sugar production in the state, according to a preliminary report released on Tuesday. It is reported by Reuters. The projection, produced by the Louisiana State University and the industry group Sugar League, says that the area hit by the storm will have agricultural yield losses ra...

Brazil's center-south (CS) region is seen producing 34.17 million tonnes of sugar in the 2022/23 season (April-March), just a bit more than the 33.06 million tonnes projected for the current crop, according to sugar analyst CovrigAnalytics. It is reported by Reuters. During a presentation on Wednesday at a sugar conference organized by information company Sugaronline, the analyst projected Brazil's CS sugarcane crop at 552 mi...

Suedzucker SZUG.DE, Europe's largest sugar producer, said on Wednesday its second quarter operating profits and sales rose strongly as its core sugar business improved its performance. It is reported by Reuters. In an advance earnings release, Suedzucker reported a 25% increase in group operating profits for the three months to the end of August to about 85 million euros ($100 mi...

«Starokostiantynivcukor» LLC has entered new production season. It is reported by the company on its Facebook-page. The sugar team prepared the Refinery, modernizing, improving and reconstructing important production facilities. And the partners-agrarians...

«Astarta» completed the processing of contracted imported raw cane sugar at the Yareskivsky Sugar Plant. The output amounted to 73.4kt of white sugar, which meets the high-quality category by European standards. 100% of all sugar from raw cane products are already contracted. It is reported by press center of the company. Valery Sokolenko, the Executive Director of «Astarta-Kyiv», commented: «The Company’s decision to import and process raw cane...

On September 10, the sugar beet processing operations began at Khorostkiv Production of «Radekhivskyi Sugar» LLC. It is reported by press-center of the company. The local enterprises of Ternopil and Lviv regions provide the Refinery with sugar beets. The first volumes of raw materials were receive...

Today A’SPIK Group began one of the most important stages of its work — the sugar beets harvesting operations. It is reported by the company on Its Facebook-page. Agricultural workers have taken the harvesters to the fields, and «Starokostiantynivtsukor» successfully accepts the first sweet...

On September 9, «Podillia Foods Company» PJSC began sweet harvesting operations.  It is announced by the company on its Facebook-page. 2021 sugar beet harvesting season is officially started! According to the report, sweet roots showed their high potential throughou...