They ask the industry to transfer the rise in the price of sugar to the beet producers in Spain

The Agrarian Association of Young Farmers ASAJA of Castilla y León calls on the sugar industry to fully transfer to beet producers the greater industrial benefits that are being produced by a spectacular increase in the price of sugar. At the end of September, the price of sugar in Europe stood at 512 euros per tonne, which represents 104 euros per tonne more than the price of September 2021. However, in the so-called region 3, where countries such as Spain , Portugal or Italy, the price has reached 669 euros per ton, experiencing a growth of 42.6% compared to the prices of the same date of the previous year. Beet cultivation is suffering an unstoppable decline in Castilla y Leýn, the main producing community in our country. In the last campaign, which has just begun to harvest, the historical minimum has been reached, with just over 15,000 hectares, almost half of what was sown, something very worrying, because it is one of the few alternatives that is agronomically well adapted ...