The Spanish Association of Young Farmers demanded to transfer the entire increase in the price of sugar to sugar beet growers

Justice for sugar beet producers must prevail amid rising global sugar prices, say Spanish agricultural youth The agricultural association of young farmers ASAJA of Castile and León has demanded that the sugar industry fully transfer the enormous industrial benefits that the impressive rise in sugar prices brings to beet growers, reports agroinformacion.com. At the end of September 2022, the price of sugar in Europe was 512 euros per tonne, which is 104 euros per tonne higher than the price of September 2021. However, in the so-called region 3, where countries such as Spain, Portugal or Italy are located, the price reached 669 euros per tonne, an increase of 42.6% compared to prices at the same date of the previous year. At the same time, beet cultivation is experiencing a steady decline in Castile and León, the main production community in Spain. In the last campaign, when harvesting had just begun, a historic low was reached: just over 15,000 ha, almost half of what had ...