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Russian Sugar-Beet Sowing Plunges 49% on Rainfall, IKAR Says

10 мая 2011 года

April 19 (Bloomberg) -- Russia sugar-beet planting fell 49 percent from a year earlier after rainfall complicated sowing in 2011, the Institute for Agricultural Market Studies said.

Beets were planted on 194,700 hectares (481,114 acres) as of yesterday, IKAR, as the Moscow-based institute is known, said in an e-mailed statement today. That compares with 378,700 hectares as of April 18, 2010, it said, citing data from Russia’s Sugar Producers’ Union.

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