Russian and CIS sugar news, July 29, 2015

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RUSSIA

Tatarstan has decided to upgrade capacity of local sugar factories. Buinsky and Nurlatsky plants are able to process up to 8 thousand tons of raw materials with reconstruction continuing at the factory in Buinsk. Today Zainsk sugar factory has increased its processing capacity up to 3 thousand tons of raw materials / day.

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"Kristall-2" – sugar factory in Novokubansk area of In the Krasnodar region – has started to accept beet, according to the Ministry of Agriculture of the region. The rest of the plants in Krasnodar Territory will start receiving sugar beet from 1 August. According to the Association "Kubansaharprom", total 14 of 16 regional sugar mills will operate in the season-2015. The total volume of sugar beet projected for processing in the region will be about 8.5 million tons (including the supply of sugar beet from Stavropol Territory and Rostov Region).

 

BELARUS

Sugar stocks in the country made 71.9 thousand tons as of 1 July 2015, which is 35.8% less than it was on June 1, 2015, the National Statistical Committee of Belarus informs.

AZERBAIJAN

Import of sugar in Azerbaijan has made total 95.5 thousand tons in January-May 2015, which is 36.1 less than during the same period last year, according to State Statistics Committee of the Republic. The total cost of imported sugar to the country has totalled US$ 45 million 837.8 thousand

CIS

According to the National Statistics Committee of Belarus, the production of sugar in certain countries of the CIS in 2012-2014 looks as follows:

Production of sugar in CIS countries in 2012-2014

Country / Year

TOTAL
x1000 MT

Per capita,
kg

2012

2013

2014

2012

2013

2014

Azerbaijan

356

423

410

38,3

44,9

43,0

Armenia

69,3

69,6

89,2

22,0

22,0

28,4

Belarus

863

853

744

91,2

90,1

78,5

Kazakhstan

173

357

400

10,3

20,9

23,2

Kyrgyzstan

13,3

25,2

20,1

2,4

4,4

3,4

Moldova

83

140

178

23,4

39,5

49,9

Russia

5 322

4 959

5 213

37,2

34,6

36,0

Ukraine

2 143

1 263

2 100

47,2

27,9

47,7

 

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