France increases its sugar production but cannot export more due to Ukrainian competition

French sugar production will increase in 2023 thanks to a slight increase in beet production and an increase in sugar yields. Despite this increase in availability, French exporters have not benefited and have not been able to increase their sales because they have to compete in the European market with sugar from third countries, mainly from Ukraine, which enters the EU without duties. customs from 2022, as a consequence of the war, according to data published by the French Ministry of Agriculture. France is the leading European producer of sugar (beet and cane) but the second largest producer of beet sugar, after Germany. It produced 4.4 Mt of beet sugar, 7% more than in the 2022-23 campaign, but at the same time, it has seen its exports decrease by more than 3%, to 2.41 Mt (during the first six months of the 2023/24 campaign) Its exports to the community market have decreased even more (-4%) due to the increase in European production but above all, due to the growth of exports ...