Growing
Developing grower partnerships
ALL OUR SUGAR BEET COMES FROM FARMS IN EAST ANGLIA AND THE EAST MIDLANDS
DEVELOPING GROWER PARTNERSHIPS
We work with the National Farmers' Union (NFU) and the 3,500 growers who supply the eight million tonnes of sugar beet that we process at our four advanced manufacturing plants every year, to produce 1.4 million tonnes of homegrown sugar for customers across the UK and Ireland and parts of Europe.
DRIVING CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT
We are strong supporters of sustainable agriculture and helping farmers continuously improve their sugar beet yields. To drive this continuous improvement, we have established a mixed funded research and development and knowledge exchange programme, through the British Beet Research Organisation (BBRO).
This collaborative approach continues to drive increased sugar beet yields and over the past 10 years we have increased yields by 25%.
WE HAVE INCREASED SUGAR BEET YIELDS BY 25% OVER THE PAST 10 YEARS
SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE
Sustainable agriculture is important to us, our growers and our customers.
Improvements have been achieved through the introduction of new seed varieties, crop agronomy advice and harvesting and crop storage techniques. The sugar beet crop has further potential to increase yields and British Sugar is constantly working with growers to maximise this opportunity.
For the past eight years, all the sugar beet supplied to British Sugar has been Red Tractor Farm Assured which, combined with UK legislation, also achieves the globally recognised standard of silver level equivalence with the SAI Platform’s Farm Sustainability Assessment (FSA) 2.0.
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