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Astarta’s agricultural subsidiaries have completed the spring planting. It is reported by press-service of the company. The estimated core spring crops’ acreage for 2024 is as follows: sugar beets – 38kha, soybeans – over 70kha, winter wheat – 4...

Egypt's General Authority for Supply Commodities (GASC) on Monday announced a tender to import at least 50,000 metric tons of raw cane sugar from any origin on behalf of the Egyptian Sugar & Integrated Industries Company. It is reported xm.com. Offers should be submitted for arrival Sept. 1-15 and/or Sept. 15-30 and/or Oct. 1-15 and/or Oct. 15-31 for at sight payment. Offers should be in Egyptian pounds or U...

In 2024, «Astarta» will start selling sugar under its own brand. The CEO of the company, Viktor Ivanchyk, told about this in an interview for Forbes.ua. One of the country's largest agricultural holdings, «Astarta», goes to the final consumer. Th...

«Continental Farmers Group» finished sugar beet planting campaign. The sugar beet sown area amounted to 3.26 thousand hectares. This is reported by Novyny Ternopilschyny. «This year's sowing campaign is special primarily due to the weather conditions, because the heat came very early. Already at the end of Ma...

Michigan farmers made good headway on planting with less than four days suitable for fieldwork last week. It is reported by brownfield. The USDA says sugarbeets are 95 percent planted, 60 percent emerged and rated 95 percent good to excellent. Frost damage has become most apparent in some tart...

The Cuban sugar harvest is winding down at the lowest tonnage since 1900, forcing the government to import and putting more pressure on its domestic rum, soft drink and pharmaceutical industries, according to official reports, two economists and a rum industry source. It is reported by Reuters. President Miguel Diaz-Canel said at the end of April that the state-run industry had produced 71% of the 412,000 metric tons planned, or just shy of 300,000 metric tons,...

In Ukraine, the area of more than 250,000 hectares was sown with sugar beets. It is reported by press service of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine. As of May 9, Ukrainian agricultural producers planted sugar beets on the area of 250.1 thousand hectares...

This year, «Epicentr Agro» agricultural holding sowed sugar beet, a crop that had not been cultivated for many years. Such a step is determined by today's realities and orientation to the domestic sales market. Serhiy Filyuk, the head of the Northern Cluster of «Epicenter Agro», told it, news service of «Agrariy razom» reported. «We have introduced a long-forgotten sugar...

Bukovyna farmers finished sugar beet sowing. According to operational data, more than 2,000 hectares were set aside for cultivation, which actually corresponds to last year's level. It is reported by Department of Agri-Industrial Development of Chernivtsi Regional Military Administration. Sugar beets were planted by 2 farms: «Zakhidnyi Bug» on the area of 1,55...

The Agriculture Minister of Tanzania, Hussein Bashe, told the parliament that the government has set aside 400 hectares of land to grow sugarcane seedlings. These seedlings will be given to sugarcane farmers to help increase sugar production in the country, reported News Ghana. Bashe said that the Sugar Board of Tanzania has partnered with the Tanzania Prisons Production Corporation to grow sugarcane seedlings in Turiani, Morogoro Region. Currently, Tanzania produces abou...