Processing of sugar beets harvested in 2023 has begun in Russia

Kanevskoy (Pokrovsky Concern) and Leningradsky (Dominant) sugar factories in the Krasnodar Territory on July 26 were the first in the country to start processing new crop sugar beet, on the 27th processing started at Vyselkovsky, Korenovsky and Tikhoretsky sugar factories (all - "Agrocomplex ” named after N. I. Tkachev) Evgeny Ivanov, a leading expert of the Institute for Agricultural Market Studies (IKAR), told Agroinvestor. This is record early, he stressed: a year earlier, the Tikhoretsky sugar plant was the first to start working on July 30, Kanevskaya was launched on August 5 in 2022, and Leningradsky on August 8. As of the morning of July 28, 86.5 thousand tons of sugar beets were harvested in the Krasnodar Kart, a year ago at this time they had not yet begun to dig it, Ivanov said. As of July 21, the indicators of agricultural growth in terms of root, tops and density were among the best over the past few seasons. Thus, the weight of the root was on average 20.1% higher ...