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For the first siх months of 2017 ASTARTA sugar segment generated revenues of EUR 108 million, which is almost 80% higher y-o-y. ASTARTA reports about it in its interim report. Sugar sales volumes increased by 58% — to about 223,000 tonnes. The Company continued its strategy of export expansion and delivered 57% o...

On August, 30 at 14:00 Tomashpil Sugar Refinery («Agricultural Complex «Zelena Dolyna» LLC) began sugar beet processing. This season the company plans to make more than 30 ths t of sugar: «We plan to produce not less than 35-40 ths t of sugar, but it's too early to talk about it because the beet are still...

Brazilian mills reduced the amount of cane they use to produce sugar in the first half of August, increasing the use of the raw material for ethanol production as demand and prices for the biofuel improved, cane industry group Unica said. Reuters reports about it. Mills in Brazil’s center-south region, the country’s main cane belt, earmarked 50,04 percent of cane in the first half of August to sugar production, the small...

For a wide public discussion, submission of comments and proposals, a draft order of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy "On approval of requirements for types of sugars intended for human consumption" was published, the purpose of which is to bring the requirements of Ukrainian sugar production to European standards. It is reported by the press-service of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy of Ukraine. In this way, the Ministry continues to implement the norms of the EU directives into national legislation in...

Consideration of the law on the launch of the agricultural land market is scheduled for October. It was announced by the First Deputy Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food, Maxym Martyniyk, on Facebook. «As part of the land reform, we finalize the proposals of the working group to wo...