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RUSSIA
Nikolay Fyodorov will leave the post of Minister of Agriculture of Russia, he will be replaced by the governor of the Krasnodar region Alexander Tkachyov.
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The "United Confectioners" plans the reconstruction of the "Promsahar" (Rylsky sugar plant) during next two years, increasing its capacity by half - to 800 thousand tons. To the modernization of the enterprise will be allocated about RUR2 billion.
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According to the Ministry of Agriculture, as of April 21, 2015, sugar beet was seeded on an area of 368.1 thousand ha, or 37.6% of the forecast (in 2014 the progress was 447.100 thousand ha). According to the Soyuzrossakhar, 374.4 thousand hectares were planted with sugar beet in Russia as of April 21, 2015 (37.7% of the projected areas of the crop). In 2014 on this date, total - 467,100 hectares were seeded.
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Experts from the Research Centre of Confectionery Market have supposed the partial suspension of the chocolate manufacture in Russia because of rising production costs for the year by 50%.
UKRAINE
According to the price monitoring by Ministry of Economic Development, within 10 days from 10 to 20 April 2015, the average sugar price fell by 2% to 11.44 UAH/kg.
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As of April 21, sugar beet was sown on an area of 194 thousand hectares, or 70% of the forecast (in 2014 was 315 thousand ha).
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