Five sugar plants started production season 2021/22

As of 8 September, beet sugar production in Ukraine reached 13.2 thou. t. Sugar beet processing by the refineries on the reporting date stood at 128.8 thou. t, the National Association of Sugar Producers of Ukraine (Ukrsugar) reports.

Plants operating in the 2021/22 sugar production season (by launch date):

1. 21 August – Panda (Selyshchansky Sugar Plant), Cherkasy region
2. 1 September – Gaisyn Sugar Plant of FC Zorya Podillya, Vinnytsya region
3. 3 September – Chervonsky Sugar Mill, Zhytomyr region
4. 5 September – Radekhiv Sugar (Khorostkiv Sugar Plant), Ternopil region
5. 7 September – Salyvonkivskyi Sugar Plant, Kyiv region

Sugar beet area in Ukraine in the 2021 crop year is 227.14 thou. ha, in 2020 it was 209.01 thou. ha.

As of 2 September, sugar beet harvesting in Ukraine was completed on 1.17 thou. ha.