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Two sugar refineries of «Astarta» — Narkevусhi (Khmelnytsk region) and Zhdanivsky (Vinnytsia region) — continue sugar beet processing. Six refineries of the company located in Poltava and Kharkiv regions have already completed the production season. As of January 9, more than 430 thousand tonnes of sugar, about 100 thousand tonnes of molasses a...

Cygnet Sugar Refinery produced 33,1 thousand tonnes of sugar. This year, the company completed the production season 10 days earlier than planned. It is reported by the company. The sugar refinery in Andrushky, Zhytomyr region, owned by Cygnet company, processed a record amount of sugar beet — 232 thousand tonnes. It...

As of January 9, Ukraine produced 2,018 million tonnes of sugar and processed 14,07 million tonnes of sugar beet. 46 sugar refineries worked in the current season. «Sugar production has reached 2,018 million tonnes and it is higher than last year's production volumes. However, this figure is not yet final, as four more sugar refineries continue th...

In Southern India sugar mills are reeling under low production and extremely low cane crushing capacity utilisation. It is reported by SmartInvestor. While drought has resulted in low capacity utilisation due to lower cane availability, the mills are also having to deal with increasing fixed cost and price falls,...

Myanmar Sugar Development Public Co Ltd has secured state approval to invest US$20 million to build a new 5000 tonnes cane/day sugar mill in Kathar township, Sagaing Region. It is reported by International Sugar Journal. «The first phase of the mill construction and cogeneration plant is expected to be completed in a year and a half followed by another US$20 mill...

The Angolan Bioenergy Company (Biocom) is expected to produce 63,000 tonnes of sugar this year. It is reported by International Sugar Journal. While this is some 13% higher than the previous year, by all accounts this is significantly short of the full capacity of 256,000 tonnes which th...

The Sugar Company of Cameroon (SOSUCAM) plans to produce 160,000 tonnes of sugar a year by 2023, against a little over 120,000 tonnes now. It is reported by International Sugar Journal. The expansion in production will take place at its sites in Mbandjock and Nkoteng in the Central Region, where the company also has a cane planta...

Beet sugar output in the current campaign is forecast at over 6,6 million tonnes by the Institute for Agrarian Market Studies (IKAR). Last year Russia produced 6,2 million tonnes of sugar. It is reported by Sugar.ru. Combination of continuing increase in productivity and expansion in acreage (by 7,9% to 1,198,000 ha) informs the record output. Over the past 21 years, productivity...

Indonesia, the world's second-largest sugar importer, is exploring the possibility of buying raw sugar from India, where a bumper cane crop has raised fears of a glut of the sweetener.  It is reported by The Economic Times. India, too, is keen to export a bigger quantity, preferably through barter trade.  A delegation from Indonesian Sugar Association met representatives o...

Agrarians of Ternopil region completed sugar beet harvesting. UNIAN reports about it. Mariya Dermanska, Head of the Department of Agricultural Production Management of the Department of Agro-Industrial Development of the Regional State Administration, says, t...