date:Mar 26, 2019
season after the end of quotas, and stable versus the current 2018/19 season, when harvests were hit by drought.
EU sugar output could be reduced by a further 700,000 tonnes by aphid attacks, with many farmers in the bloc no longer allowed to use neonicotinoid pesticides because of concerns they are harmful to bees, Masson added.
In France, the EUs largest beet grower which has forbidden these crop chemicals, the area drop could reach 8 percent compared to last year, he said.
As of last week