This is a positive view of the state of affairs in the industry. There are few grounds for optimism, but there are still some. First, many agrarians rightly point to the high moisture reserves in the soil, which contributes to both the development of winter crops and sowing of spring crops – with good starting prospects, despite the shift in the dates of the sowing campaign of early crops.
Second, the administration of one of Moldova’s sugar producing companies publicly announced that it had ordered seeds for sowing sugar beet – presumably by its own agricultural division and partner farms – on an area of about 7,000 hectares.
However, there are reasons for pessimism. Unfortunately, last year’s harvest from about 2-2.2 thousand hectares of beet plantations has not been harvested (plowed into the soil). Obviously, this is a very bad background for sowing beet for the future crop. In addition, it is not clear by now whether another Moldovan sugar company will contract crops and raw materials for the 2026 crop.
An interesting detail – representatives of insurance companies claim that the sugar producing company, which plans to continue its work in the current season, is negotiating to insure about 9 thousand hectares of sugar beet crops against spring frosts.
