The sugar-refining season continues in Poltava region, the Poltava Regonal Military Administration reports.
This year, 28.7 thousand hectares of sugar beet were sown in the region, 11.5% of the total area of this crop in Ukraine. Currently, 15.8 thousand hectares of sugar beets have been harvested (55% of the plan), 728.4 thousand tons have been obtained and the average yield amounts to 461 hundredweights/ha, up by 36.5 hundredweights YoY.
Sugar beets are processed by three sugar factories: the branch of “Globyno Sugar Factory” of “Tsukroagroprom” LLC, the branch of “YareskySugar Factory” of “Tsukroagroprom” LLC and “Novoorzhitskyi Sugar Factory” LLC, which have already accepted 685.4 thousand tons of sugar beets and produced 88.1 thousand tons of sugar.
The Department of Agri-Industrial Development of Poltava Regonal Military Administration noted that the region’s needs would be fully met. (Ukrsugar/Business World Magazine)
