Turkey: Sugar Semi-annual
Turkey produced 2.39 million metric tons (MMT) of sugar in marketing year (MY) 2013/14 from a harvested area of 280,000 hectares. After remaining the same at 2,288,000 metric tons (MT) for the past two marketing years, Turkey’s beet sugar quota increased slightly in MY 2014/15 to 2,327,500 MT. In light of the increased quotas, beet sugar production is expected to increase to 2.4 million metric tons in MY 2014/15.