Sugar news from Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan, Aug 08, 2016

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RUSSIA

According to the monitoring data by the Ministry of Agriculture, the wholesale price of sugar dropped by 3.9%, retail - increased by 1% in the period from July 26 to August 1, 2016.

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According to the information by the Federal Customs Service, Russia has imported sugar for the total value of US$ 18.0 million in July 2016, (in June – US$ 17.3 million; in July 2015 – US$ 21.7 million).

UKRAINE

As of August 5, 2016 the average weight of sugar beet is 292 g (in 2015 season – 278 grams), the mass of foliage per plant is 391 g (in 2015 – 358 g), sucrose content – 13.5% (in 2015 – 13.6% ), plants density – 101 thousand plants/ha.

KAZAKHSTAN

According to railway monitoring data by Sugar.Ru, in July 2016 Kazakhstan has 5.7 thousand tons of sugar by rail received via Russia in July 2016. The total volume of imports for 7 months of 2016 by Kazakhstan has made 46.6 thousand tons of sugar (in 2015 – 135 thousand tons.) received by rail transit Russia. The main suppliers of sugar to Kazakhstan are Ukraine (44.6%) and Poland 23.4%).

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