Ukraine 2017/18 sugar output rises 6.5pc to 2.14mn T

KIEV: Ukraine completed the 2017/18 sugar season, processing 2.14 million tonnes of white sugar from the 2017 sugar beet harvest, sugar producers' union Ukrtsukor said on Tuesday.

Ukraine produced 2.01 million tonnes sugar from sugar beet in 2016/17.

Ukraine consumes about 1.5 million tonnes of sugar a year.

The country produced about 5 million tonnes of white beet sugar a year during Soviet times but has cut production sharply due to a lack of export markets in the face of competition from cheaper cane sugar.