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France has released strategic fuel reserves for sugar producers after they warned that a lack of diesel impacting the harvesting of sugar beet could lead to factory stoppages, producer group SNFS said on Monday. It is reported by Reuters. Strikes over wages at TotalEnergies and Exxon Mobil refineries have disrupted refining and delivery, leaving a third of French fuel stations running short. The French gov...

Zhytomyr region continues sugar beet harvesting campaign. It is reported by ruporzt. According to the Department of Agri-Industrial Development and Economic Policy of Zhytomyr region, as of October 5, in all categories of farms sugar beets were harvested...

In Ternopil region, sugar beet harvesting has been slowed down due to unfavorable weather conditions. It is reported by Svoboda. But agrarians are actively delivering the harvested sugar beets to sugar factories. More than 200,000 tonnes of raw materials have been received for sweet production sinc...

As of the first week of October, 1,6 million tonnes of sugar beets were harvested in Ukraine. It is reported by press service of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine. Sugar beets were harvested from the area of 33,4 thousand hectares (19% of the plan), 1,6 million tonnes of s...

According to the new forecast of WVZ,  in 2022/2023 MY in Germany sugar production will decrease by 11%. It is reported by Nasdaq. from beets in the new 2022/23 season now starting is forecast to fall to about 4.05 million tonnes from 4.57 million tonnes last season, Germany's sugar industry assoc...

India's sugar exports rose 57% — to 10,98 mln tonnes during 2021-22 marketing year ended September. It is reported by Business Standard. In 2021-22 marketing year, the food ministry said that "India has emerged as the world's largest producer and consumer of sugar as well as the world...

European Union sugar production is forecast to fall by 6.9% in the 2022/23 season to 15.5 million tonnes following a drop in planted area and a severe summer drought in many parts of the trading bloc, the European Commission said in a short-term outlook issued on Wednesday. It is reported by Nasdaq. The drought led to a drop in sugar beet yields of 4% while the planted area also decreased by 4%, the report said. Consumption of sugar rose in 2021/22 by 5.6% to 16.8...

UNICA, the Brazilian sugarcane industry association, has announced that sugarcane processing by mills in the country’s south-central region was up during the first half of September. Ethanol production was also up, but ethanol sales were down slightly. It is reported by ethanolproducer.com. Mills in the south-central region of Brazil processed 39.49 million tons of sugarcane during the first two weeks of September, up 2.51 percent when compa...

French sugar and ethanol group Tereos has decided to close and dismantle its factory in Romania after talks with a local company interested in taking over the plant failed to go through. It is reported by Reuters. Tereos, the world's second largest sugar producer by volume, had said earlier this year it was planning to shut its Ludus factory. The Romanian agriculture mi...

Rivne region continues late crops harvesting campaign. Rivne Regional Military Administration informs about it, Rivne1 reports. Long rains in recent weeks have almost stopped autumn field works. But even in such difficult weather conditions, th...