Issuance of sugar import license

Issuance of sugar import license

The deputy director of the state trading company said: “Since yesterday, licensing of sugar factories to import 700,000 tons of sugar has started, and now we need sugar in warehouses for 5 months.” Rokna Eghtesadi: Hassan Abbasi Maroofan, مورد Regarding the latest situation of sugar production and import to regulate the Eid night market, said: to regulate the market in 1996, the import license of 700,000 tons of sugar has been started gradually since yesterday.

He added: “According to the policy of the Ministry of Jihad for Agriculture, this year, import licenses will be given only to factories that have already extracted sugar beet or sugarcane, in order to cover the domestic production deficit.”

The deputy director of the state trading company stated that 2 million and 200 thousand tons of sugar is consumed annually in the country, noting: Iran is one of the most consumed countries in the field of sugar, which we predict will extract 1 million and 620 thousand tons of sugar from domestic beets and sugarcane. The rest, about 600,000 tons, will be supplied through imports, which the Ministry of Jihad for Agriculture has issued as a precautionary import license for 700,000 tons. According to famous Abbasi, 600,000 tons of sugar cane extracted from Brazil will be imported.

Regarding the volume of sugar produced so far, he said: “This year, we had predicted that 800,000 tons of sugar would be produced from domestic beet products, of which 814 tons have been extracted so far, and this year, 18 kilograms of sugar have been extracted from every 100 kilograms of beet.”

The deputy director of the state trading company also explained about the situation of sugar extracted from sugarcane: that so far, 500,000 tons of sugar have been extracted from this method and another 500,000 tons will be extracted.

He emphasized: ‌This year, the stock of sugar warehouses is very desirable and we need the country as much as the next 5 months of sugar and we will not have any tension or inflammation in the market.