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Sugar prices in India have climbed more than 6% in two weeks and are likely to rise further as production is set to fall and demand from bulk consumers to strengthen during the peak summer season, industry officials told Reuters. Higher local prices will improve the margins of sugar makers such as Balrampur Chini, Shree Renuka Sugars, Dalmia Bharat Sugar and Dwarikesh Sugar, helping them make cane payments on time to farm...

Spring sowing campaign is in full swing in Ternopil region. Volodymyr Stakhiv, the director of department of agri-industrial development of the regional military state administration, told it, svoboda.te.ua reported. Sugar beets were sown on the first 3,8 t...

This year, FE «Nyva» (Vinnytsia region, 3,000 ha) resumes sugar beet production. The director of the enterprise, Serhiy Tsaryuk, noted this in a comment for AgroPortal: «We haven't sowed sugar beets for the last 5 years, but we introduced it in crop rotation, b...

As of April 7, almost 26,000 hectares of sugar beets were planted in Ukraine. It is reported by the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine. Farmers of Vinnytsia, Volyn, Rivne, Ternopil, Khmelnytsk and Cherkasy regions started sugar beet sowing, 25,600 ha were s...

«Astarta»’s agricultural subsidiaries started the 2023 planting season. Farmers in Poltava region were the first to begin sugar beet sowing. It is reported by press-service of the company. This year’s projected structure of the crop mix is as follows: sugar beet – 38.9k ha, corn – 19.1k ha, soybeans – 56.9k ha, w...

The company takes the start of the season quite seriously, because good work planning is the key to autumn success. Every year, Gnidava sugar refinery actively cooperates with agricultural enterprises and tries to determine in advance the sugar beet sown areas. It is reported by press-service of the company. «Preparations for 2023 season actually started the day after the end of the current season. Currently, preparatory work is underway, as well as...

The US Department of Agriculture in its March 31 Prospective Plantings report said farmers intend to plant 1,110,800 acres to sugar beets in 2023, down 4.2% from 1,159,500 acres in 2022 and the lowest since 2008. It is reported by Baking Business. Planted area in Montana, typically the sixth largest beet planting state, was forecast at 24,000 acres, down 29% from 2022 and the lowest on record. Wyoming...

In 2023, the number of working sugar factories in Ukraine will reach 29, six more than the previous year. It is reported by Acting Chairman of the National Association of Sugar Producers of Ukraine «Ukrsugar» Nazar Mykhailovyn for UkrAgroConsult. «Due to the military actions on the territory of our country last year, there were serious problems in Kyiv, Kharkiv, Zhytomyr and Chernihiv regions. They could not participate in beet...

As of March 31, sugar beet sowing began in six regions of Ukraine. It is reported by the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine. Farmers of Vinnytsia, Volyn, Rivne, Ternopil, Khmelnytsk and Cherkasy regions began sugar beet sowing campaign. Vinnytsia...

The European Union sugar beet area for the 2023/24 season is expected to be 3% below the five-year average after a court ruling on the use of neonicotinoid pesticides, the European Commission said in a short-term outlook issued on Thursday. It is reported by Nasdaq. The Court of Justice of the European Union ruled in January that member states cannot offer exemptions to the bloc's ban on crop seeds treated with neonicotinoids, whi...