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As of October 10, 35% of sugar beets were harvested in Ukraine. According to the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine, 3,440.3 thousand tonnes of sugar beets harvested from the area of ​​69.1 thousand hectares, which is 35% of the sown areas.

Gaisyn Sugar Refinery, owned by «Zorya Podillya» LLC, is preparing for a large-scale modernization of production. The enterprise plans to increase the volume of sugar beet processing to 10 thousand tonnes per day by installing new auxiliary equipment and tanks for diesel fuel storing. This is reported by real-vin.com. Since the expansion may have an environmental impact, the management has applied to the Department of Territorial Development and Infrastructure of Vinnytsia...

Vinnytsia region harvested sugar beets on the area of ​​17.9 thousand hectares (40% of the forecast). 770 thousand tonnes of beets were harvested with the average yield of 43 t/ha. According to Vinnytsia Regional Military Administration, this year's sugar beet yield is 2.9 tons/hectare higher than last year's. All five sugar factories are in operation. They have proce...

Sugar beet sowing began in Ternopil region on March 27. In particular, the first planned variety is already being sown in the fields of «APS» company near the village of Rosokhuvatets. This is reported by Teren. «First we sow Seza variety, then we will sow Annamira variety, which is already traditional for our company, and Betaseed. This year, 865 hectares ha...

Vinnytsia farmers began sugar beet sowing, as of March 28, 5.85 thousand hectares were sown, or 9% of the projected area. This is reported by Ukrinform with the reference to Vinnytsia RMA. «Sugar beet sowing began in some agricultural enterprises in southern and central parts of the region. As of...

Sugar beet sowing has started in Bukovyna: farmers have already sown 100 hectares. This is reported by Chernivtsy RMA. This crop is grown in agricultural formations and this year they plan to sow the same area as in 2024 — approximately 2 thousand hectares. Cur...

After the spring frosts, the team of «AGRO-ORMS» LLC resumed the field campaign. This is reported on the company's Facebook page. «Spring sowing is moving towards the equator: more than 400 hectares of fields have already been sown, about 800 hectares are still ahead,...

For the first 6 months of 2024/25 marketing year (from September 2024 to February 2025), Ukraine exported over 403.5 thousand tonnes of sugar. 98.4% of the volume were directed to the global market, 1.6% — to the EU countries. Exports to the EU was resumed in February and amounted to 6,559 tonnes. The main EU countries-importers of Ukrainian sugar were Bulgaria (72% of the exported volume), Greece (12%) and Italy (12%)...

The use of fermented raw materials in the process of biogas or biomethane production can replace 80-90% of mineral fertilizers. This was announced by Oleg Ryabov, executive director of LLC «Gorodysche-Pustovarivska Agrarian Company» at «Agroenergy efficiency and agroenergy security» ...

In the first 5 months of 2024/25 marketing year (September 2024 - January 2025), Ukraine exported over 352 thousand tonnes of sugar, or 17% more than in the same period of 2023/24 marketing year. The entire exported volume was directed to the Global market, while in September 2023 - January 2024 the share of exports to the Global market was only 9.5%. The significant increase in the share o...