4 February 2023

Sugar export decreased in comparison to November and December, but in general it remains quite an active.

Sugar export became much more active in October. If in the first nine months of Y2022 Ukraine exported just 43k tons of sugar, while during last three months – 138k tons.

Since the beginning of season 2022/23 Ukrainian companies exported 169k tons of sugar.

Dynamics during last years looked as follows:

In January average sugar export price per 1 ton made about $810 per 1 ton (for comparison in Y2022 - $768 per 1 ton). Export price remains quite attractive for Ukrainian producers, so we can expect that in coming months sugar export from Ukraine will remain quite high.

In Y2022 total sugar beets harvest in Ukraine made 9.1 mln tons (yield comprised 50 t/ha vs. 47 t/ha a year ago and 41.6 t/ha in Y2020), expected sugar output – about 1.25 mln tons.

In the current season total Ukrainian sugar export can make 300-400 k tons.

The biggest sugar producers in Ukraine are Astarta, Ukrprominvest-Agro and Radekhiv-Tsukor.