Export of Russian sugar by rail for 4 months of 2017 and news from Ukraine

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RUSSIA

According to the Ministry of Agriculture, sugar beet was sown on an area of 961.4 thousand hectares or 85.2% of the forecast by May 4, 2017, (in 2016 - 810.4 thousand ha). In the Lipetsk region, as of May 3, the sowing of sugar beets was completed at 124 thousand hectares, the regional administration reports.

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According to the railway cargo monitoring by Sugar.Ru, for 4 months 2017 Russia exported 150.4 thousand tons of sugar (in 2016 - 1.3 thousand tons). The main recipients were Kazakhstan (40.4%) and Azerbaijan (32.5%). The largest exporters of Russian sugar by rail in 2017 were Uspensky (29.3 thousand tons) and Elan-Kolenovsky (22.6 thousand tons) sugar mills.

Export of Russian sugar by rail for 4 months of 2017

Destination

2015

2016

2016
total

2017

2017
total

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

1

2

3

4

Kazakhstan

2285

136

543

882

476

1494

1623

8868

16098

15861

45980

14350

12604

20795

12946

60694

Azerbaijan

135

677

6124

1144

8080

3030

8705

14346

22716

48797

Tajikistan

388

5057

7315

4932

8420

25724

3456

5428

4195

3798

16877

Kyrgyzstan

2463

52

52

136

2772

4610

4406

11924

Non CIS

183

3463

4006

7469

Turkmenistan

474

135

678

944

1756

1017

814

1766

3597

Mongolia

444

66

201

66

64

129

270

269

1065

131

271

132

67

601

Abkhazia/Georgia

524

64

64

65

64

185

129

136

265

973

131

269

400

DPRK

136

136

Uzbekistan

2038

882

136

3056

TOTAL

6761

64

116

202

943

882

607

249

1622

6816

19427

29119

26774

86821

21102

30928

48354

49975

150359

UKRAINE

From March 30 to April 27, the average sugar prices in Ukraine remained at the level of 16.46 hryvnia/kg (35.77 rubles / kg), according to Ukrstat.

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According to the railway cargo monitoring by Sugar.Ru, Ukraine resumed the export of sugar to the Caucasus in Central Asia in April 2017, total volume delivered by rail transit the Russian Federation has made 47 thousand tons of sugar, thus total exports for 4 months of 2017 made 6.2 thousand tons (in 2016 - 8 thousand tons). The main recipient of transit Ukrainian sugar was Azerbaijan, which received 4.5 thousand tons since the beginning of the year.

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