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Does Russia grow sugar beets or Ukraine?

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Answered by drwls
Both countries grow sugar beets and are major producers.

Ukraine was an exporter of sugar beets to Russia, but Russia has been trying to shift more to cane as a source of its sugar, and growing more sugar beets of its own.

There is something of a trade war going on between the two countries, with Russia importing less sugar beets from Ukraine and withholding natural gas to Ukraine, as punishment for the pro-western "Orange revolution" going on in Ukraine.
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