As of November 29, 2018, sugar beet processing enterprises in Ukraine processed 10.89 million tons of the crop, Ukrsugar reports.

Sugar production as of the reporting date reached 1.47 million tons.

The Ukrsugar experts reduced the forecast of sugar production in MY2018/19 (September 2018–August 2019) to 1.7 million tons from 2 million tons, due to the low sugar content of sugar beet.

Sugar production season started 40 enterprises.