Poland: Sugar Annual
For Marketing Year (MY) 2015/16 estimated sugar production amounted to 1.35 million metric tons (MMT), 32 percent lower than last year. Lower acreage and unfavorable weather conditions resulted in this year’s lower yields and smaller crop volume. Sugar beet quality was good with sugar content estimated at 17.5 percent, in line with 2014/15’s result. 2014/15 over-quota production translated in 2015/16 to less contracted area under cultivation. In MY 2016/17 white sugar production from sugar beets is forecast at 1.8 MMT, 33 percent higher than MY 2015/16.
