OREANDA-NEWS. June 28, 2013. There are negative changings in the sugar regional market and bad functioning in sugar-beet production in Moldova. It all increased the cases of sugar smuggling from Ukraine, – Alexander Koss.

This was stated by the speaker of Sudzucker Moldova during the traditional holiday Day of sugar-beet that took place in raionul Drochia. Alexander Koss says that there were problems in sugar-beet production since autumn, 2012, causing smuggling of big amounts of sugar-beet from Ukraine. It decreased the sales output of Moldova’s producers thrice in QI, 2013. For this reason, sugar-beet producers should consolidate their efforts to develop the competitive production of sugar-beet and sugar. In these conditions, Sudzucker Moldova decided to pay most attention to research and practice of Day of sugar-beet 2013.

New technologies are especially important, when the weather is getting worse, Alexander Koss states. He also specifies that Sudzucker Moldova managed to establish rather effective and competitive conditions in sugar-beet domain with agricultural partners. It is important that the shaky decisions at the state level not destroy the development potential of this and other sectors. The Minister of Agriculture and Food Industry Vasile Bumacov says that the Ministry does its best to make this agricultural sector of priority in the state politics and this goal lays in the Development Strategy for Agriculture 2014-2020. Sudzucker Moldova has invested more than MDL 600 million in sugar beet production in Moldova and annually gives credits to its partners in the amount of MDL 100 million.

As a result, the power consumption decreased more than twice. The amount of produced sugar considerably increased (40 tons per ha). In 2008 Sudzucker Moldova got the international standards licence ISO 9001:2000 and Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (НАССР). In 2012 Sudzucker Moldova produced 53 thousand tons of sugar that made 67% of total amount of sugar produced in Moldova.

The company exports sugar to some European countries and Russia. The money turnover of Sudzucker Moldova exceeded MDL 1 billion in 2012. Sudzucker AG is the main shareholder of Sudzucker Moldova; it is the largest sugar producer in the World.