Refineries in Ukraine process about 2 mln t of sugar beet by 6 Oct.

As of 6 October, beet sugar production in Ukraine reached 255.6 thou. t. Sugar beet processing by the refineries on the reporting date stood at 1,778.3 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
21. 30 September – Lynovytsky Krasny Integrated Sugar refinery, Chernihiv region
22. 30 September – Oleksandriiskyi Sugar Plant of AgroVista, Kirovohrad region
23. 1 October – Shepetivskyi Sugar Mill of A'SPIK GROUP, Khmelnytsky region
24. 2 October – Novoorzhytskiy Sugar Plant of Astarta-Kyiv, Poltava region
25. 4 October – Pryzma-14 (Kashperivka Sugar Refinery), Kyiv region
26. 5 October – Zhurivka Sugar Refining Mill Kraevyd, Kyiv 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 30 September, sugar beet harvesting in Ukraine was 21% completed, the crop yielded 47.96 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.