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Fri 08 Aug 2003Beet growers face wipe-out, says IFAIreland's 3,700 sugar beet growers are facing "a total wipe- out" if proposals to reduce import tariffs drastically and remove export subsidies are agreed at the upcoming Word Trade Organisation negotiations in Mexico, it was claimed yesterday.Mr John Dillon, the Irish Farmers' Association president, said sugar production in the EU was facing an all-out attack in the WTO by major exporting countries such as Brazil, Australia and Thailand