The 400,000 sugar beet growers represented by CIBE produce on average just under 20 million tonnes of white sugar per year from around 2 million hectares, intended mainly for the 600 million inhabitants of the CIBE member countries.

Members of CIBE are national and regional associations. At present CIBE represents sugar beet growers from 18 European beet-producing countries; this includes 160,000 growers from 16 EU countries (Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, the Slovak Republic, Sweden, the United Kingdom) as well as 240,000 growers from 2 non-EU countries (Switzerland and Turkey).

NEWS

May 2012 - The Refining Industry in Europe.... Read more
May 2012 - The European Sugar Users... Read more
November 2011 - CIBE Position Paper: Response to Commission's Proposal on Single CMO... Read more
15 November - CIBE's Press Release: EU Beet Growers meet the President of the EU Agriculture Council and share concerns over commission proposal on sugar... Read more
12 October 2011 - CIBE's Press Release: European Sugar Beet Growers outraged by the commission’s legislative proposal on sugar... Read more
CIBE-CEFS Brochure and Leaflet "The EU Beet and Sugar Sector, A Model of Environmental Sustainability"...Read more
CIBE-IFAP Leaflet "Climate change — Farmer's solutions: Energy produced in a sustainable way"...Read more