Poland: Sugar Annual
Polish farmers wait for the new EU sugar market reform with great hope and excitement. Larger farming area and greater processing scale in the country is expected. Although sugar beet producers are concerned about a decline in profitability of production, they see great opportunity for increasing the scale of production and in new opportunities for export. It is forecast that in MY 2016/17 sugar beet planting area in Poland will reach a record level of 220,000 Ha. Sugar production is likely to increase by 4.8 percent, to 2.2 MMT. Sugar production will exceed domestic consumption by 500,000 MT. In 2016, the sugar industry’s production capacity was about 75 percent larger than in 2009. There is a great potential for further technological progress in agricultural holdings and growing performance in the Polish sugar processing industry from restructuring and modernization.
