Five sugar factories belonging to the Astarta agro-industrial holding, Ukraine’s largest sugar producer, produced 361,000 tons of sugar during the 2025 sugar season, which is 5% less than in 2024 (380,000 tons), the agro-industrial holding’s press service reported on Facebook on Friday.
According to the information, sugar yield was 15.56% compared to 14.96% a year earlier and exceeded the average in Ukraine, which, according to the National Association of Sugar Producers of Ukraine (NASU) as of January 1, 2026, was 15.19%.
In total, the enterprises processed more than 2.3 million tons of sugar beets grown in the fields of the agricultural holding and in partnership with agricultural producers.
“The season was marked by high product quality that meets the most stringent market requirements,” the agricultural holding said.
It specified that this sugar processing season was the 26th in the company’s history and the 168th for the Zhdanivsky sugar factory within the holding’s structure.
Astarta is a vertically integrated agro-industrial holding operating in eight regions of Ukraine. It includes six sugar factories, agricultural enterprises with a land bank of 220,000 hectares, dairy farms with 22,000 head of cattle, an oil extraction plant in Hlobine (Poltava region), seven elevators, and a biogas complex.
In January-September 2025, Astarta reduced its net profit by 42.2% to EUR43.70 million, and its consolidated revenue decreased by 22.4% to EUR342.78 million.
