Chile Ends Sugar Beet Production After More Than 70 Years
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Chile halts beet sugar production

Chile stops growing sugar beets. And this is after more than seven decades of history of production of this atypical (for South America) agricultural crop. The reason is low sugar prices and rising costs of agricultural production in the world.
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The country’s only sugar beet processor, Empresas Iansa, has announced that it will not enter into contracts with producers for the 2026/27 season. This effectively means the end of domestic sugar beet production in Chile. This is reported by Reuters.

The company explained that the cultivation of the crop has become economically unprofitable due to the fall in world sugar prices and the constant increase in production costs.


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