Israeli sugar maker Sugat will start exporting sugar from Israel, with the first exports to be sent to Morocco, after the firm endorsed an agreement with a company there. The first shipment will be for 100,000 tons of sugar, worth about $80,000. The sugar will be packed for the Moroccan company distributing it, and will bear a "made in Israel"mark. This is Sugat's first export deal ever.

Israel's sugar market in 2009 was worth about NIS 350 million, with Sugat's market share at 77%. The company opened a fresh processing plant in Kiryat Gat in 2009, which can produce 400,000 tons of refined sugar a year