{"id":23175,"date":"2025-09-09T09:20:45","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T09:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.selinawamucii.com\/news\/?p=23175"},"modified":"2025-09-09T09:21:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T09:21:25","slug":"germany-sugars-down-in-2025-26-after-annual-boom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.selinawamucii.com\/news\/2025\/09\/09\/germany-sugars-down-in-2025-26-after-annual-boom\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany sugars down in 2025-26 after annual boom \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Germany expects production of refined sugars to simmer down by 4.9% in the 2025-26 financial year, shrugging off a 2024 glut.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/agriinsite.com\/germany-industry-association-sees-4-9-fall-in-sugar-output-in-2025-26-season\/\"><u>Agriinsite&nbsp;<\/u><\/a>on September 8, 2025, Germany\u2019s sugar industry association (WVZ) forecasts an annual decrease by 0.23 million tonnes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On September 7, the WVZ put an initial output projection at 4.4 million tonnes, which could change in later forecasts.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The body blames the decrement to low sugar beet acreage by 9.3% year-on-year (y-o-y), to 350,100 hectares in 2025.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The view echoes&nbsp;<a href=\" www.selinawamucii.com\/news\/2025\/04\/29\/beet-sugar-turns-bearish-with-prices-in-euro\"><u>similar trends in Europe<\/u><\/a>, whose beets industry lost glitter in early 2025 due to a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.selinawamucii.com\/insights\/prices\/germany\/sugar-beet\/\"><u>price<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;slump. This in turn caused the bloc\u2019s farmers to shelve plantings.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The WVZ expects the 2025-26 beet yield rate to fall to 82.6 tonnes a hectare (ha) from 2024-25&#8217;s 84.7 tonnes\/ha.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Productivity declines will not hamper the sucrose content of the crop, however, which will increase by 0.9%, to 17.2%, y-o-y.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is good news at a time when farmers are approaching the winter planting season\u00a0with trepidation over sugariness-impacting diseases. One of these is the low sugar content syndrome or SBR, which leads to significant losses.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-glut-in-2024\"><strong>Glut in 2024<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Conversely at a time like this in 2024, Germany\u2019s sugar industry had foreseen a 13% yearly rise in sugar production.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Initial estimates had put refined beet sugar production at 4.77 million tonnes, up from the 4.22 million tonnes of 2023-24, per&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/markets\/commodities\/german-refined-sugar-output-expected-rise-by-13-industry-group-says-2024-09-02\/\"><u>Reuters.<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That forecast went down the wire, culminating in an actual production of 4.63 million tonnes for the 2024-25 season. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The forecast also put acreage that year at 385,000 ha or 5.7% more than that of the foregoing season.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now the question remains whether this latest projection will finally auger with actual output in 2026. Meantime, here are a few notes on the production and utilization of sugars in Germany.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-germany-sugars-statistics\"><strong>Germany Sugars&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>Statistics&nbsp;<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Germany\u2019s sugar industry is a behemoth in Europe that depends exclusively on beets for raw materials. The country boasts between\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.iirb.org\/fileadmin\/IIRB\/Congresses\/74th_IIRB_Congress\/oral_presentations\/1_2_bleckwenn_en.pdf\"><u>360,000 hectares<\/u><\/a>\u00a0(2014) and<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/markets\/commodities\/german-refined-sugar-output-expected-rise-by-13-industry-group-says-2024-09-02\/\"><u>\u00a0385,000 ha<\/u><\/a>\u00a0(2024 estimate) of cultivated beets each year. This represents around 3% of the country\u2019s farmland, on which 31,000 growers cultivate the crop. Although beets have historically also served as the source of biofuels and biogas, their main purpose is sugar conversion. Around\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.iirb.org\/fileadmin\/IIRB\/Congresses\/74th_IIRB_Congress\/oral_presentations\/1_2_bleckwenn_en.pdf\"><u>20 sugar mills\u00a0<\/u><\/a>were operating in the country in 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Below is a production snapshot of beets in the 2010-23 period, courtesy of the\u00a0<a href=\"#data\/QCL\"><u>FAOSTAT<\/u><\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>Year<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Production [tonnes]<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Cultivated Area [Ha]<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2023<\/td><td>31,558,200<\/td><td>395,800<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2022<\/td><td>28,201,400<\/td><td>396,300<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2021<\/td><td>31,945,400<\/td><td>390,700<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2020<\/td><td>28,618,100<\/td><td>386,000<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Fig:\u00a0<\/em>sugar beets production, Germany, 2020-23<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Does Germany export much sugar?&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Germany has historically been a major exporter of raw sugars and processed confectionary. In 2024, the export value reached\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/tradingeconomics.com\/germany\/exports\/sugars-sugar-confectionery\"><u>$4.9 billion<\/u><\/a>\u00a0the fifth highest worldwide, according to the Trading Economics. Germany, Brazil, India, Thailand and France together supplied\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldstopexports.com\/sugar-exports-country\/\"><u>68.7%<\/u><\/a>\u00a0of the global raw sugar export value in 2024. Indeed, raw sugar exports by Germany in the 2024-25 season amounted to over $1.197 billion or a 3.2% share globally. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Is Germany\u2019s export sugar expensive?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In\u00a0terms of unit value sales, sugar from Germany is pretty expensive in the international market. In 2024, for example, it shipped at<a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldstopexports.com\/sugar-exports-country\/\"><u>\u00a0$792<\/u><\/a>\u00a0a tonne, behind Mexico\u2019s $929\/tonne, among the top 12 exporters. This high rate helped Germany attain a trade surplus of $706.5 million in sugar versus imports.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Germany expects production of refined sugars to simmer down by 4.9% in the 2025-26 financial year, shrugging off a 2024 glut.\u00a0 According to&nbsp;Agriinsite&nbsp;on September 8, 2025, Germany\u2019s sugar industry association (WVZ) forecasts an annual decrease by 0.23 million tonnes. 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