French Sugar-Beet Harvest Set to Fall to Six-Year Low on Weather
- Sugar-beet crop to fall 3.6% in 2016-17: Agriculture Ministry
- Beets got too much rain in spring, too little during summer
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Sugar-beet production in France will fall to a six-year low this season as adverse weather hurt yields, according to the Agriculture Ministry.
Output in the European Union’s largest grower will fall 3.6 percent from a year earlier to 32.3 million metric tons in the 2016-17 season started this month, the ministry said in a report on its website Monday. That would be the lowest since 2010-11. Adverse weather during growing and development phases means yields will be 8 percent lower than the five-year average.