The tenth factory test on sugar beet delivered to refineries in Germany this season showed sugar content of 17.85 percent compared to 17.22 percent in the same test last season, the association of German sugar producers WVZ said on Thursday. This was also up from 17.79 percent in the ninth test this year issued on November 24.
The WVZ said on Thursday it expects 28.874 million tonnes of beets to be delivered to German refineries in the current 2011/12 season, up from 22.441 million tonnes delivered last season, when a summer heatwave damaged German sugar crops. Some 65 percent of the German sugar crop has now been delivered to refineries compared to 75 percent this time last year. German refineries have produced 2.974 million tonnes of sugar so far in the current sugar season against 2.680 million tonnes this time last year, the WVZ said.