New crop sugar beet processing started at 20 refineries in Ukraine

As of 30 September, beet sugar production in Ukraine reached 171.7 thou. t. Sugar beet processing by the refineries on the reporting date stood at 1,373.8 mln t, the National Association of Sugar Producers of Ukraine (Ukrsugar) reports.

Plants operating in the 2021/22(September 2021-August 2022) 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
6. 10 September – Radekhiv Sugar (Khorostkiv Sugar Plant), Ternopil region
7. 13 September – Kryzhopil Sugar Refinery of FC Podillya, Vinnytsya region
8. 13 September – Zhdanivka Sugar Plant of Astarta-Kyiv, Vinnytsya region
9. 13 September – Starokostyantynivsugar, Khmelnytsky region
10. 15 September – Tomashpil Sugar Plant of FC Zorya Podillya, Vinnytsya region
11. 15 September – Cygnet Centr of Cygnet Agrocompany, Zhytomyr region
12. 16 September – Lannivsky Sugar Plant, Poltava region
13. 19 September – Yuzefo-Mykolaiv Agricultural and Industrial Company, Vinnytsya region
14. 21 September – Novomyrhorod Sugar (Kapitanivka Sugar Plant) of I&U Group, Kirovohrad region
15. 23 September – Horodyshche-Pustovarivskyi Sugar Plant of Gals Agro, Kyiv region
16. 23 September – Shamraivsky Sugar Plant, Kyiv region
17. 24 September – Tsukragromprom, Yaresky Sugar Plant of Astarta-Kyiv, Poltava region
18. 26 September – Radekhiv Sugar (Chortkiv Sugar Producing Plant), Ternopil region
19. 26 September – Narkevitskiy Sugar Plant of Astarta-Kyiv, Khmelnytsky region
20. 27 September – Teofipol Sugar Plant of Ukraine-2001, Khmelnytsky region

READ MORE: Ukrainian Sugar Market Overview 2020/21

The 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 23 September, sugar beet harvesting in Ukraine was 11% completed, the crop yielded 48.53 t/ha on average.

In the current production season, beet sugar output is projected by the Economy Ministry to reach 1.4 mln t, 30% above the previous season's outturn.