date:Apr 23, 2014
ceeded Russian processors demand for sugar beets by approximately 15 per cent, and as a result sugar beet prices plummeted and a significant portion of the sugar beet crop was left unprocessed and lost.
In 2013, although farmers planted only 906,000 hectares to sugar beets, this area was concentrated in large agroholding companies which use modern technologies and improved seeds. Because of this, and favorable weather, yields reached a record and production was at 39 MMT.
The domestic consumpt