Astarta produced 200k tons of sugar from the beginning of MY 2017/18

Sugar plants of the agri-industrial holding Astarta-Kiev produced 200 thousand tons of sugar from the beginning of MY 2017/18.

This is reported on the company's Facebook page.

Sugar is both exported and sold on the domestic market.

Reference: Astarta's agrofirms harvested sugar beet on 70% of the area. The current average yield of sugar beet is 50 tons/ha.