Sugar beet processing continues in the Lipetsk region

As of November 9 of this year, six SUGAR factories in the Lipetsk region processed 2.7 million tons of sugar beet from the new crop. 408 thousand tons of sugar have been produced.

The sugar content of beets is 18.96%. The Dobrinsky Sugar Plant put into storage for further processing 33.8 thousand cubic meters. meters of syrup. The Lipetsk Region is still one of the top three sugar producers, along with the Krasnodar Territory and the Voronezh Region.

Sugar beet harvesting in the region is almost completed. As of November 9, more than 3.9 million tons were collected. The beet yield exceeds last year and is 362.1 c/ha (343.8 c/ha in 2020). The farms of the region have about 1,000 hectares left to harvest.

“Despite the difficult weather conditions that have developed this year for most crops, the gross harvest for sugar beet will be at least 10% higher than in the past,” said Oleg Dolgikh, HEAD of the Lipetsk Region Agriculture Department. “We plan to receive about 800 thousand tons of sugar in 2021.”