Russia: Bashkiria has covered its own sugar needs by half

As of November 21, Bashkiria produced almost 100 thousand tons of sugar, the republic's Ministry of Agriculture reported. This is twice as much as the region needs for the product. "By November 21, the Chishminsky Sugar Plant and the Raevsakhar enterprise processed more than 705 thousand tons of new-harvest sugar beet roots, including 11 thousand tons in the past 24 hours," the report says. After modernization, two sugar plants are capable of processing up to 6 thousand tons of beets per day, the department noted. Yevgeny Ivanov, a leading expert at the Institute for Agricultural Market Studies (IKAR), told RBC Ufa that this season, sugar beet yields and sugar production in all macroregions, except for the Volga region and the Urals, have decreased compared to last year. The area under sugar beet in Russia in 2024 increased by 10%, to 1.17 million hectares against 1.06 million hectares in 2023. Sugar production, taking into account the processing of syrup and molasses, may exceed ...