Last season, PP “Zakhidnyi Buh” harvested a high yield of sugar beet. Broken down by harvesting period, the weighted average yield in September reached 71.2 t/ha (equivalent to 12 tonnes of sugar per hectare), in October — 76.4 t/ha (13.2 tonnes of sugar per hectare), and in November — 82.5 t/ha (14.5 tonnes of sugar per hectare), ProAgro Group reports. On some fields, yields exceeded the weighted average by 22–25%.
As Deputy Director of PP “Zakhidnyi Buh” Dmytro Kyseliov stated during the Grain Storage Forum, sugar content ranged from 16.72% for the September harvest to 17.71% for the November harvest. In terms of gross sugar output per hectare, the company matched the performance indicators of France.
“Despite the fact that our sugar beet processing plant suspended operations on January 17, and we later postponed the restart and completion of the processing campaign by another 10 days, overall the 2025 season for sugar beet turned out to be successful,” Dmytro Kyseliov noted.
As previously reported, even amid low sugar prices, many agricultural producers do not abandon sugar beet in crop rotations, and some farms earned up to $700–800 per hectare from sugar beet this season.
