Russian sugar news and beets sowing campaign update from Belarus, Apr 25, 2017

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RUSSIA

According to the Ministry of Agriculture, sugar beet was sown at an area of 629.4 thousand hectares or 55.7% of the forecast by April 24, 2017 (in 2016 - 680.9 thousand hectares).

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The Moscow Arbitration Court, following the initiative of Rusagro, has declared the agroholding of PJSC Razgulay Group to be bankrupt. The bankruptcy proceedings began against the company. The decision to bankrupt the company was due to the fact that "Razgulay" was not able to pay off the entire debt to "Rusagro".

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All sugar beet farms in the Kursk region completed sugar beet sowing campaign, the administration of the region reported on April 24.

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According to the figures by Williams Brasil dated April 25, 2017, total 6 vessels have been nominated to carry 235000 MT of raw cane sugar in 2017 season from Brazilian seaports to the Black/Baltic seaports with end-receivers in CIS, Georgia and Baltic states. As of today, the volume received and unloaded makes 144400 MT from 4 vessels, based on Sugar.ru data.

BELARUS

As of April 24, 2017, total 59.2 thousand hectares were sown with sugar beet (61.7% of the plan), according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Belarus.

Sowing of sugar beet in Belarus, update: April 24, 2017.

Description

Belarus total

Including by regions

Brest

Vitebsk

Gomel

Grodno

Minsk

Mogilev

2017

2016

2017

2016

2017

2016

2017

2016

2017

2016

2017

2016

2017

2016

Acreage planned
1000 ha

96

20

0

0

33,6

37,4

5

Seeded
1000 ha

59,2

72,8

14,9

15,9

0

0

0

0

24,6

26,8

17,8

28,1

1,88

2

To planned %

61,7

76,1

74,4

78,2

0

0

0

0

73,3

81,5

47,6

73,9

37,6

44,4

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