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«Volochysk-Agro» LLC expects to obtain good raw materials for sugar production

«Volochysk-Agro» LLC, which is a part of «Astarta-Kyiv» agricultural holding, expects a good sugar beet harvest this year and applies plant protection products to the crop. This is reported on the company's Facebook page. There is enough time before the start of this year's "sweet" season, and, like all crops, sugar beets are paid attention and...

 
Tanzania moves to boost sugarcane production

Tanzanian authorities announced measures they were taking to boost the production of sugarcane that will lead to ending sugar scarcity in the East African nation. It is reported by The Print. Hussein Bashe, the minister of Agriculture, said the measures included the construction of irrigation schemes for small-scale sugarcane growers in sugarcane growing reg...

 
Brazil’s sugar production seen little changed in 2022/23

Brazilian mills are expected to produce only 200,000 tonnes more sugar in the 2022/23 season (April-March) despite a better sugarcane crop, as a larger part of the cane will be used to make ethanol, investment bank Itau BBA said on Friday. It is reported by hellenicshippingnews. The bank’s agricultural research arm projected Brazil’s centre-south (CS) sugar production at 32.2 million tonnes in 2022/23 versus 32 milli...

 
Brazil's sugarcane crushing down almost 8% — Unica

Brazil's center-south sugarcane crushing came in below market expectations late in June, data from industry group Unica showed on Tuesday, with sugar output falling from last year as mills kept betting on ethanol and yields remained under pressure. It is reported by Successful Farming. Crushing totaled 41.87 million tonnes in the second half of June, down 7.9% from a year earlier, while analysts polled by financial information provider S&...

 
India extends export period for sugar mills by 2 weeks

India has extended by two weeks a deadline for the export of 800,000 tonnes of sugar as annual monsoon rains make it tough for many producers to move stocks from factories to ports, the government said on Friday. It is reported by The Economic Times. Last month, the world's biggest producer of the sweetener gave its mills until July 5 to export the sugar, but some mills missed doing so because of heavy...


Suedzucker quarterly profits surge over 230%

Europe's largest sugar producer Suedzucker (SZUG.DE) on Thursday posted a rise of about 230% in quarterly earnings and confirmed increased profit forecasts for its new fiscal year despite the impact of the war in Ukraine. It is reported by Reuters. Suedzucker said operating profits in the first quarter of its new 2022/23 year starting on March 1 rose to some 163 million euros ($166.23 million) from 49 million euros...


UPI-AGRO partners discussed the prospects of sugar beets cultivation

«Agrarian front: strategy of the victory» — the meeting of «Ukrprominvest-Agro» team with partners in sugar beet cultivation took place under this leitmotif. It is reported on the company's Facebook-page. More than 70 agricultural producers gathered in Vinnytsia at the invitation of UPI-AGRO to talk about the prospects of growing sugar beet, familia...


EBRD supports food security loan to «Astarta»

The EBRD is boosting food security in wartime Ukraine by backing more than half the risk of a revolving working capital loan for UAH 330 million (€10.5 million equivalent) to Astarta Group, one of the country’s major agricultural and food processing businesses, through an agreement with Raiffeisen Bank  (RB). The share of the risk the EBRD takes on comes to €6.3 million. It is reported by press center of the company. The EBRD’s risk-sharing instruments enhance local financiers’ capacity to provide access to finance for Ukrainian private companies operat...


A'SPIK Group buys ED&F Man subsidiary

The Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine granted permission to A'SPIK Group to acquire ED&F Man subsidiary. It is stated in the message of the AMCU, AgroPortal reports. «Agro-Orms» LLC has got a permission to acquire a stake in the authorized capital of «Ukrainian Sugar Company» L...

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