Sugar beet processing close to 900 thou. t, 16 sugar refineries started the season

As of October 5, beet sugar production in Ukraine totalled 118.6 thou. t. Sugar beet processing by the refineries has reached 891.9 thou. t, the National Association of Sugar Producers of Ukraine (Ukrsugar) reports.

Plants operating in the 2020/21 sugar production season (by launch date):

1. Sep. 5 – Radekhiv Sugar (Radekhiv Sugar Plant), Lviv region;
2. Sep. 10 – Tsukragromprom, Yaresky Sugar Plant of Astarta-Kyiv, Poltava region;
3. Sep. 12 – Chervonsky Sugar Mill, Zhytomyr region;
4. Sep. 15 – Starokostyantynivsugar, Khmelnytsky region;
5. Sep. 16 – Radekhiv Sugar (Khorostkiv Sugar Plant), Ternopil region;
6. Sep. 19 – Zhdanivka Sugar Plant of Astarta-Kyiv, Vinnytsya region;
7. Sep. 19 – Horodyshche-Pustovarivskyi Sugar Plant of Gals Agro, Kyiv region;
8. Sep. 20 – Yuzefo-Mykolaiv Agricultural and Industrial Company, Vinnytsya region;
9. Sep. 20 – Salyvonkivskyi Sugar Plant, Kyiv region;
10. Sep. 23 – Lynovytsky Krasny Integrated Sugar refinery, Chernihiv region;
11. Sep. 23 – Shepetivskyi Sugar Mill of A'SPIK GROUP, Khmelnytsky region;
12. Sep. 25 – Gnidava Sugar Plant, Volyn region;
13. Sep. 26 – Radekhiv Sugar (Chortkiv Sugar Producing Plant), Ternopil region;
14. Sep. 26 – Shamraivsky Sugar Plant, Kyiv region;
15. Sep. 27 – Teofipol Sugar Plant of Ukraine-2001, Khmelnytsky region;
16. Oct. 3 – Panda (Selyshchansky Sugar Plant), Cherkasy region.

On September 8, Marianivskyi Sugar Plant, a subsidiary of Agro-Express-Service, started sugar production.

Under the data of the Sowing Online 2019/20 project, sugar beet area in Ukraine in 2020 totals 209.01 thou. ha.

Sugar production in 2020/21 is projected by Ukrsugar experts at 1.2-1.3 mln t, 15% less YoY. However, this volume satisfies domestic demand. Sugar carryovers at the beginning of 2020/21 were estimated at 60-70 thou. t at processing enterprises and 40-50 thou. t at wholesale and retail trade facilities.

This year, 33 sugar plants should start the production season, which is 2 more than last year.