Sugar production season started at 21 of 32 enterprises

As of September 26th, 21 enterprises started beet sugar production season. Plants produced 158.1 thou. t of sugar, the National Association of Sugar Producers of Ukraine (Ukrsugar) informs.

1.181 mln t of sugar beet were processed by the reporting date.

As a reminder, only 32 plants are to be launched this season, less from previous years. The number of factories operating in the season was cut by overproduction and low sugar price observed recently.