EU sugar quotas contribute to reduced beet plantings in Ukraine
Due to quotas for sugar exports to the EU, the area under sugar beets in Ukraine will decrease by 15–20% in 2025.
This was announced by the First Deputy Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food, Taras Vysotsky, at a briefing.
“Farmers are reducing the area under sugar beets: from 260 thousand hectares last year to approximately 210 thousand hectares this year. This is all due to quotas for sugar exports to the EU, because producers are afraid of whether there will be sales markets. There is a quota – the market reacts,” he explained.
This is one of the few examples where restrictions within the framework of autonomous trade preferences with the EU directly affect the structure of crops.
As previously reported by the Ministry of Agrarian Policy, as of May 2, 2025, Ukrainian farmers have already sown 217.3 thousand hectares of sugar beets.
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