French sugar output expected at 4.05 million tonnes

French sugar production is expected to reach 4.05 million tonnes in 2005/06, excluding cane sugar, the French sugar intervention board FIRS said on Monday quoting an estimate from the country's sugar growers union SNFS.
The board added that with an area sown of 340,000 hectares, it forecast an average yield of 11.92 tonnes of sugar per hectare.
"On this basis and taking into account the commission's decision to declassify, the country's production inside quotas would reach 2.8 million tonnes and the quantity of sugar C to export or to transfer on 2006/07 would reach 1.4 million tonnes," the FIRS said.