Russian and CIS sugar news, Sept 09, 2016

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RUSSIA

According to the Ministry of Agriculture, sugar beets were harvested from the area of 152 900 ha or 13.8% of the crop acreage as of September 8, 2016; the volume collected makes 6.7 million tons, with average yields of 44.09 MT/ha.

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According to the deputy head of the agrarian and industrial complex department of Belgorod Vasily Melnikov, sucrose content of sugar beet is 14% this season, despite the fact that it was 18% during same period last year.

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According to railway monitoring data by Sugar.Ru, 182 500 MT of white sugar were imported by railway to Russia in 8 months of 2016. Virtually all the imported sugar was supplied Belarus – 181.5 thousand tons. Over 865 tons was delivered from Poland to Kaliningrad region.

KAZAKHSTAN

Exports of sugar and confectionery products increased by 84% to make 17 200 tons in 8 months of 2016, the chairman of the National Bank of Kazakhstan Daniyar Akishev has told.

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The share of sugar produced from domestic sugar beet in Kazakhstan makes 3% only, the remaining 97% falls on imports. At the same time more than half the volume (55%) of refined sugar is produced from imported raw cane, straight import of refined sugar makes 42%, according to the First Deputy Minister of Agriculture of Kazakhstan Kairat Aituganov.

UKRAINE

The country has harvested 8 300 hectares of sugar beet from the beginning of the season by September 8 which is 3% of the total crop acreage. The volume of beet processed makes 325 500 tons, with 37 800 tons of beet sugar produced, according to "Ukrtsukor". Currently 13 sugar factories located in Vinnitsa, Volyn, Kirovograd, Kyiv, Lvov, Poltava, Ternopol and Cherkassy regions process the beet.

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According to the State Statistics Service, the prices for sugar from producers increased by 0.5% in August 2016 compared to the previous month, from the beginning of the year (to December 2015) the prices have decreased by 3.4%.

MOLDOVA

Sudzucker Moldova expects to collect 500 000 tons of sugar beet and produced about 70 thousand tons of sugar this season. In 2015 Sudzucker Moldova has produced 53,600 tons of sugar out of 380 thousand tons of sugar beet.

Sugar.Ru