Ukraine sugar exports fall 10pc so far in 2018/19: union

KIEV: Ukraine has cut its white sugar exports by 10 percent to 304,600 tonnes in the first seven months of the September-August season, national sugar producers union Ukrtsukor said on Tuesday.

Ukraine's 2017/18 sugar exports fell to 560,400 tonnes from a record 769,300 tonnes in 2016/17.

Ukraine exports its white beet sugar mostly to former Soviet republics.

The union has said Ukraine's white sugar production fell 15 percent to 1.82 million tonnes in the 2018/19 season due to a decrease in the sugar beet harvest.

Ukraine has already started its 2019 sugar beet sowing, seeding 189,000 hectares of the commodity out of a planned 220,000-230,000 hectares.