date:Apr 23, 2014
ion much expansion of processing facilities. Given continued financial problems and high indebtedness of many companies in Russian agriculture, new investments, if any, in the Russian sugar industry in MY 2014/15 will be directed to the modernization and improvement of existing plants rather than to construction of new facilities.
In 2011 and 2012 Russia produced record sugar beet crops of 47.6 MMT and 45.1 MMT from 1.2 million hectares and 1.1 million hectares, respectively. This production ex