SUGAR PRODUCTION

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17228, 7 April 1930, Page 7

SUGAR PRODUCTION

THE EUROPEAN CROPS INCREASE ANTICIPATED (Klee. Tel. Copyright—United Tress Assn.) (Received April 7, 10 a.in.) LONDON, April <>. An ini-roast* oT llio acreage under sugar in Europe is predicted by l>r. M iku.seh, an international export, who says that even if the Soviet’s anticipated 40 per cent, 'increase in sowings

is not included somewhat larger sowings will be made throughout Europe than last year. Price negotiations continue in Czechoslovakia, but it is generally believed Dial sowings will increase' there. In the United Kingdo in, Australia, and the Soviet Union the area has been increased, while an in-

crease is expected in Prance. The increase in Latvia will be from 4200 [(, PUSH acres. No material change is expected in Belgium, Holland, or the Balkan States, but .Polish and Hungarian planters favor an increase, though the factories want a restriction, and in Italy growers have agreed to plant 272,000 acres instead of 282,400 as last year. Air. F. O. Light, the Madgcburg expert, estimates European beet sowings, including Russia, at 2,970,000 acres, compared with 2,650,000 acres last year.