Delta Sugar ups beet planting area this year

Delta Sugar agreed with farmers to plant an additional 20k feddans of beet this year to push the total cultivation area to 114k feddans, Chairman Ahmed Abul Yazeed said in a statement cited by Reuters. Land allocated for sugar beet is already planted “with incentives to those who had planted early,” Abul Yazeed adds. The company is targeting increasing its production capacity to 19k tonnes of sugar per day from 14.5k tonnes in 2017.