Sugar Semi-Annual Report, Turkey

Turkey’s sugar beet production is forecast at 20.5 MMT in MY 2019/20 and is expected to result in 2.7 MMT sugar. For MY 2019/20, as announced by Presidential Decree on February 5, 2019, the quota for starch-based sugar decreased from 5 percent to 2.5 percent. Total sugar imports for the first ten months of MY 2018/2019 were about 144,500 MT, which is down about 30 percent compared to the same period last year.