Sugar production in Ukraine as of September 28, 2020 amounted to 70,200 tonnes.
According to a Tuesday posting on the website of the Ukrtsukor National Association of Sugar Producers, 12 sugar refineries were operating in the country, which processed 548,900 tonnes of sugar beet.
As reported with reference to Ukrtsukor, the sugar beet processing season in Ukraine started on September 5.
Sugar production in Ukraine as of September 22, 2020 amounted to 28,000 tonnes.
According to a report on the website of the Ukrtsukor National Association of Sugar Producers, as of this date, nine sugar factories were operating in the country, which have processed 236,500 tonnes of sugar beets.
The sugar beet processing season in Ukraine started on September 5.
As reported with reference to Ukrtsukor, sugar production in the country in 2020 is projected at 1.2-1.3 million tonnes, which is 15% less than a year earlier.
It is expected that 33 sugar factories will operate this season, at the level of last year.
Sugar production in Ukraine as of September 14, 2020 amounted to 7,950 tonnes.
According to the report of the Ukrtsukor National Association of Sugar Producers, published on its website, as of this date, three sugar factories were operating in the country, which have processed 80,900 tonnes of sugar beets so far.
The sugar beet processing season in Ukraine started on September 5.
As reported, with reference to Ukrtsukor, sugar production in the country in 2020 is projected at the level of 1.2-1.3 million tonnes, which is 15% less than a year earlier.
It is expected that 33 sugar factories will operate this season, at the level of last year.
Sugar production in Ukraine as of September 8, 2020 amounted to 1,050 tonnes.
According to the report of the Ukrtsukor National Association of Sugar Producers, as of this date one sugar refinery in the country – Radekhiv Sugar LLC – is operating, which has processed 17,400 tonnes of sugar beet by now.
As reported with reference to Ukrtsukor, sugar production in the country in 2020 is projected at the level of 1.2-1.3 million tonnes, which is 15% less than a year earlier.
It is expected that 33 sugar refineries will operate this season – the same number as last year.
Astarta agricultural holding, major sugar producer in Ukraine, increased its sugar sales by 44% in January-March 2020 compared to the same period in 2019, to 77,560 tonnes, the company said at the Warsaw Stock Exchange on Tuesday, April 14.
According to the data, sales of wheat for the indicated period decreased by 68%, to 3,400 tonnes, corn by 17%, to 236,000 tonnes, sunflower oil by 99%, to 69 tonnes, soybean oil by 22%, to 11,140 tonnes, milk by 9%, to 23,640 tonnes.
Sales of soybean meal last year remained at the level of 2019 and were 46,860 tonnes.
According to the agricultural holding, average prices for sugar during the period decreased by 1%, wheat by 22%, corn by 6%, sunflower by 7%, soybean meal by 14%.
Average prices for milk increased by 9%, soybean oil by 1%.
Astarta is a vertically integrated agroindustrial holding operating in eight regions of Ukraine.
Ukraine in 2019 exported 236,800 tonnes of sugar, which is almost 2.5 times less than in the same period last year, the Ukrtsukor National Association of Sugar Producers has reported. “This year was not very favorable for Ukrainian sugar producers, and compared with the past year, we can see that exports have completely dipped: if earlier exports over the month reached 40,000-60,000 tonnes, then during the last six months, on average, we exported about 5,000 tonnes of sugar per month,” Ruslana Yanenko, the deputy chairman of the board of Ukrtsukor, said.
First of all, the expert associates this with the world surplus, which “pressed” the market and prices. In addition, according to Yanenko, Ukraine was gradually losing the markets of Africa and Asia, which once occupied the leading positions in the import of Ukrainian sugar, through growing competition from Russia and the EU.
“Next year, significant changes in the export perspective will not happen, as unfavorable world prices will continue to affect the decrease in raw materials and the reduction in sugar production, and competition in the markets that were most profitable for Ukrainian producers will intensify,” she said.
In addition, the association noted that in December 2019 some 6,900 tonnes of sugar were exported. Thus, in total for the four months of the current 2019/2020 marketing year (MY, September-August), 21,800 tonnes of sugar were delivered to foreign markets. This is almost 10 times less than in the same period of the last MY.
