Russian and CIS sugar news, April 26, 2021

Latest news are available in our daily reports.

RUSSIA

RUSAGRO increased sugar sales volumes up to 202 thousand tons or by 19% compared to the 1st quarter. 2020 -, including due to an increase in the volume of sugar shipments to retail chains, according to the report for the 1st quarter of 2021. The average selling price of the entire range of sugar products in B2B and B2C channels, taking into account logistics costs amounted to 39.3 rubles / kg excluding VAT in Q1 2021.

*

According to the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation, as of April 23, 2021, sugar beet (factory) was sown in Russia on an area of 254.1 thousand hectares, or 23.9% of the forecasted area.

UKRAINE

In Ukraine, 144.4 thousand hectares were sown with sugar beet (64% of the plan), as of April 22, 2021,

BELARUS

According to the information supplied by the Ministry of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Belarus to Sugar.Ru, as of April 26, 2021, Belarusian farmers have sown 69.2 thousand hectares of sugar beet, which is 76.4% of the plan (last year - 82.1 thousand hectares, 89.8%). Belarusian farmers plan to sow with sugar beet total acreage of 90.5 thousand hectares in 2021.

Sugar.Ru