Europe’s two largest sugar beet producers are France and Germany, where around 30 million tons of harvest are collected annually. 2024 brought a peak year in European production, unprecedented in decades. The Germans harvested 36.7 million tons, the French 34.2, and the Poles 19 million tons of beet. In Hungary, there is a continuous declining trend in the cultivation of the crop, but in 2024, its cultivated area climbed back above 16 thousand hectares. Growers brought into factories an unprecedented amount of sugar beets in 27 years. Download the Agroinform mobile application for Android or iOS to access the latest news, weather, and classifieds on the go. In terms of prices, the global market supply has also developed unfavorably this year, which has disappointed many European growers with sugar beets. In our country, the crop area immediately shrank by 29%! From 11.5 thousand hectares, growers harvested less than 600 thousand tons of beets, so we could not cover even a third of ...