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Difficult year for sugar beet farmers

It's increasingly less profitable for Swiss farmers to grow beet for the production of sugar. They are struggling with sinking profit margins and the consequences of last year's record hot summer that destroyed a quarter of the harvest. (SRF/swissinfo.ch)

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