Sugar beet harvest in the Belarus and news from Russia and Ukraine, Oct 06, 2017

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RUSSIA

According to the Ministry of Agriculture, on 5 October 2017, sugar beet was harvested in Russia from the area of 612.2 thousand hectares or 52% of crop acreage (in 2016 – 484.1 thousand hectares).

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According to the statistics of Sugar.Ru for September 2017, total 19.1 thousand tons of white sugar was imported to Russia. Thus, total, since the beginning of 2017, the imports by rail amounted to 182.8 thousand tons (in 2016 - 196.5 thousand tons), of which 174 thousand tons was supplied to Russia by Belarus.

BELARUS

As of October 6, 2017, sugar beet was harvested from an area of 42.1 thousand hectares or 43% of the crop acreage (in 2016 - 43.2 thousand hectares), according to the Ministry of Agriculture. Sugar beet harvesting progress in the Republic of Belarus; update October 6, 2017

UKRAINE

Agroholding "Astarta" intends to increase its land bank from current 250 thousand hectares to 400 thousand hectares by the year of 2020, a company representative said.

Sugar.Ru