Sugar news from Belarus and Ukraine, Sept 23, 2019

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UKRAINE

As of September 20, 2019, total 690.6 thousand tons of beets were processed and 87.4 thousand tons of sugar produced, Ukrtsukor reports.

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Sugar stocks with agricultural enterprises of Ukraine amounted to 114 322.3 tons as of September 1, 2019, which is 18.2% higher than on September 1, 2018. In January-August 2019, farmers sold 501.6 thousand tons of sugar, according to the State Statistics Service.

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By September 20, 2019 Ukrainian farmers have harvested sugar beet from an area of 17 thousand hectares, or 8% of the forecast, and collected 791 thousand tons at an average yield of 45.43 MT/ha.

BELARUS

By September23, 2019, sugar beet was harvested from an area of 25 thousand hectares or 26.6% of the area sown (in 2018 - 23.4 thousand hectares), Sugar.Ru was informed in the Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Belarus. About 1130.8 thousand MT (in 2018 - 989.1 thousand MT) of beets were collected, with an average yield of 45.32 MT/ha (in 2018 – 42.36 MT/ha). The beet sugar content in the republic is 16.23% versus 16.2% for the same date last year.

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