Export of Russian white sugar by rail and news from CIS, Aug 02, 2017

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RUSSIA

According to the Ministry of Agriculture report dated August 1, 2017, total of 2.6 thousand hectares were harvested in the country; 118,600 tons of beets collected at an average yield of 45.91 MT/ha.

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According to the rail cargo monitoring data by Sugar.Ru, Russia has exported 9.6 thousand tons of white sugar in July 2017, which is significantly lower than the level of the last months, declining since October 2016. This is caused both by the increase in the price of sugar in Russia, and the drop in world prices for raw and white sugar.

Export of Russian white sugar by rail, MT

Destination / Period

2015

2016

2017

2017
TOTAL

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

Kazakhstan

2285

45980

14350

12604

20795

12946

14104

16955

6971

98725

Azerbaijan

8080

3030

8705

14346

22716

10852

7208

808

67664

Tajikistan

388

25724

3456

5428

4195

3798

609

272

809

18567

Kyrgyzstan

2463

52

136

2772

4610

4406

2482

1722

996

17123

Non-CIS

183

3463

4006

2511

9981

Turkmenistan

474

1756

1017

814

1766

476

271

4343

Mongolia

444

1065

131

271

132

67

67

669

Abkhazia / Georgia

524

973

131

269

400

DPRK

136

Uzbekistan

3056

TOTAL

6761

86821

21102

30928

48354

49975

31101

26427

9584

217471

UKRAINE

According to Ukrstat, as of July 31, 2017, the average consumer price of sugar in Ukraine was UAH 16.3/kg (RUR 37.46/kg at the Central Bank exchange rate for the reporting day), which is 0.12% less than the price on the previous date of observation (11 days ago). For the year since July 29, 2016, sugar has grown in price by 18.55%, for two years (since July 30, 2015) the price of sugar has increased by 37.79%.

The highest prices are observed in the Lugansk region - UAH 17.34/kg, the lowest - in the Rovno region, UAH 15.52/kg.

BELARUS

According to "Belsakhar", the dynamics of sugar beet development in Belarus as of August 1, 2017 has made average:

  • The mass of the root is 348.7 g (2016 - 383.1 g),
  • The weight of the tops - 530.4 g (2016 - 440.3 g),
  • Sucrose content of beet - 11.88% (in 2016 - 12.77%). The increase in sucrose content over 10 days is almost equal to last year - 0.84% against 0.83%.

MOLDOVA

In January-June 2017, Moldova has used 56% of the quota for sugar exports - 20,800 tons out of 37,400 tons predefined by the quota. At the same time, 100% of the quota for imports of sugar from Moldova to EU (5.4 thousand tons total) was used at full.

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