Astarta boosts sugar production 52% yoy in 2008/09
30 January 2009
Astarta (AST PW), in a press release yesterday, said that its sugar output was 235 ths mt in 2008/09, up 51.5% yoy, making it the largest domestic sugar producer with a 15% market share. Astarta harvested 1.7 mln mt of sugar beets (+40% yoy) and raised its sugar yield from 12.85% to 13.85%.
