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Ukrtsukor has said that 46 sugar refineries would process beet this year and total output could reach 2 million tonnes.
The country is able to export about 460,000 tonnes of the commodity this season, it said in a statement.
Ukraine consumes about 1.5 million tonnes of sugar a year and produced 2 million tonnes of white sugar from beet in 2016.
The country produced about 5 million tonnes of white beet sugar a year during Soviet times but has cut production sharply because of a lack of export markets in the face of competition from cheaper cane sugar.