Sugar deficiency in Lower Austria: Farmers fight for price pressure!
Sugar deficiency in Lower Austria: Farmers fight for price pressure!
A dramatic decline in the sugar harvest threatens in Lower Austria! As the OE24 2024/2025 drastically from 410,000 tons to only 300,000 tons. This can be attributed to several factors, including unfavorable weather conditions, a reduced area area and persistent difficulties on the market, which are still tightened by high sugar imports from Ukraine. The sugar content of the beets fell to a measly 15 percent, while 17 percent were reached a year ago.
a worrying trend
The acreage could even shrink to around 28,000 hectares in 2025, compared to the 42,500 hectares in the previous year. This not only presents the beet farmers with massive economic challenges, but also causes high price pressure in the entire industry. The farmer farm emphasizes that free trade with Ukraine, which was granted due to the Russian attack, results in a market flooding with sugar. Before the war, the EU limited sugar imports from Ukraine to 20,000 tons per year, but the intervention measures have raised this value to frightening 263,000 tons.
Desperated beet farmers are now calling for a return to the original import limit, since the free trade agreement expires in 2025 and has to be negotiated. The challenges in sugar production are alarming, and without timely measures, the entire industry could get into a serious crisis.| Details | |
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| Ort | Niederösterreich, Österreich |
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