Sugar production in Ukraine as of December 13 amounted to 1.83 million tons, according to the Ukrtsukor National Association of Sugar Producers.
According to the report, sugar refineries processed 12.83 million tons of sugar beets.
As reported, the new season of sugar production in Ukraine began on August 30.
According to the association’s forecasts, in the current marketing year sugar production will amount to approximately 1.9 million tons, exports could amount to about 500,000 tons.
Sugar production in 2016-2017 marketing year was 2 million tons.
The areas under sugar beets in 2017 amounted to 318,000 hectares. (Interfax-Ukraine/Business World Magazine)