Ukrainian sugar refineries have started white sugar production from the 2022 sugar beet harvest, making the first 3,000 tonnes of the commodity, according to Ukraine's sugar union, reported Reuters. The country's agriculture ministry said in late September. Farmers had harvested 1 million tonnes of sugar beet from 21,300 hectares or 12 of the beet acreage as of Sept. 30. Farmers sowed 180,000 hectares to sugar beet in 2022 despite the Russian invasion. This will allow it to produce 1.1 million tonnes of white sugar, covering all of its domestic needs, deputy agriculture minister Taras Vysotskyi said in September. Ukraine produced 1.3 million tonnes of white sugar from beet in 2021.
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