Domestic Sugar Demand Higher Than Production

Iran’s domestic demand for sugar is 1.9-2.1 million tons annually, of which 1.6 million tons are produced locally, according to Hamidreza Fallah, a local government official in Khuzestan Province, the main producer of sugar in Iran.
“A total of 260,000 tons of sugar were produced in Khuzestan Province during the first nine months of the current Iranian year [March 21-Dec. 21, 2022], of which 31,000 tons were produced from beetroot,” he was quoted as saying by IRIB News.
According to the official, there are nine sugar producing factories in Khuzestan, of which eight extract sugar from sugarcane and one from beetroot.