Sugar beet production revived

Ormož, 13 March - Slovenia discontinued sugar beet production a decade ago and shut down its only sugar factory in Ormož after the EU introduced sugar quotas, but now a handful of farmers in north-eastern Slovenia have decided to plant sugar beet once again. The crop will be exported to Croatia.

Indjija, Serbia Sugar beet field. Photo: Tanjug/STA

Indjija, Serbia
Sugar beet field.
Photo: Tanjug/STA

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