News of Ukraine

As of April 15, sugar beet sown on the area of 189 thousand hectares or 77% of the planned. It is reported by press service of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine. Ukrainian agrarians sowed early spring crops and legumes on the area of 2 million hectares or 90% o...

In March of the current marketing year Ukrainian producers exported 30,2 thousand tonnes of sugar to the foreign markets, or 12% less than in the previous month. «The main deliveries were carried out to Azerbaijan (17%) and Tajikistan (14%). Also, significant volumes were exported to Uzbekistan (13%), Israel (12%) and Kazakhstan (11%)», &mdash...

Viktor Ivanchyk, the founder and co-owner of «Astarta», increased his share in the company to 36,32%. It is stated in the company's message on the Warsaw Stock Exchange website. Albacon Ventures Limited (Viktor Ivanchyk — the owner), acquired 16,5 thousand shares of «Astarta&ra...

In early April, Cygnet successfully completed sugar beet sowing. In general, this year, sugar beet occupy 14% in the harvested area structure, or 3,8 thousand hectares. The press-service of the company reports. «We began sugar beet sowing on March 25 and as of April 3 we fully finished the sowing campaign. We sowed our areas with seeds of foreign select...

Ukraine is among the 20 largest sugar producers in the world and one of the 10 largest exporters, according to the results of 2018. Thus, the amount of exports of such product in the past year amounted to USD217 million. At the moment, Ukraine has just begun organic sugar production, but it is already in demand in the European market and in the future also has to conquer the global...

As of April 10, sugar beet were sown on the area of 167 thousand hectares or 68% of the forecast. It is reported by press service of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine. Ukrainian agrarians began sowing of maize for grain, which was own on the area of 58 thousand hecta...

As of April 8, Ukrainian agrarians sowed 130 thousand hectares of sugar beet, or 53% of the forecasted area. It is reported by press service of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine. Agrarians of all regions of Ukraine are fully provided with fertilizers for spring-sowing campaign. Thus...

In 2018, «Astarta» exported almost 131 thousand tonnes of high-quality white sugar to Uzbekistan, the EU, and Asia. It is reported by press center of the company. In 2018, consolidated revenues of the Group amounted to EUR 372 million with the agriculture segment as the main contributor to the Group’s...

Vinnytsia region has sowed half of the planned sugar beet areas. It is reported by the Director of the Department of Agro-industrial Development, Ecology and Natural Resources of the Regional State Administration Mykola Tkachuk. The farms of Vinnytsia regio...

In Rivne region «Ritter Bio Agro» and «Deddens Agro» are principally organic producers. In 2017, they received organic sugar from their first organic sugar beet in Ukraine. So far, organic producers have not yet managed to cultivate such a difficult culture. It is reported by press service of Gnidava Sugar Refinery.  Who will process organic beet? — this question stops even the most decisive producers. «So far, the only way was to...