The sugar produced at the West Minya project in the south of Egypt will be sold in the local market, which faces a deficit.
"We expect to provide 1.5 million tons of beet in May and June, which will enable us to produce about 170,000 tons of sugar during that period," Islam Salem told Reuters.
Datagro expects the center-south sugar cane crop to fall to 586 million tonnes in 2021/22 from 607 million tonnes in 2020/21 due to unfavorable weather.
It projected ethanol production to fall to 29.4 billion liters versus 30.6 billion liters in the previous season.