The sugar beet: including a history of the beet sugar industry in Europe, varieties of the sugar beet, examination, soils, tillage, seeds and sowing, yield and cost of cultivation, harvesting, transportation, conserv By Lewis S. Ware. Illustrated with ninety engravings.

Abstract In the second half of the 19th century, sugar beet started its triumphal march through the southern provinces of the Russian Empire, where it soon became a main crop in the process of the modernization of agriculture. The beet-growing agricultural enterprises were considered by the state authorities as prime examples for the use of modern technology, increasing yields and more efficient organization of labour. Entrepreneurs from the sugar beet industry were people of very different social background. Using individual educational and capital resources, they benefitted enormously from the recently discovered sugar-bearing crop. This contribution focuses on the emergence and establishment of the beet sugar industry and the associated emergence of a new agrarian elite. Petrenko outlines the spread of beet sugar production in the Russian Empire, paying particular attention to its south-western region. Focusing on the development of the beet sugar industry, her analysis sheds light on the connections between the onset of modernization and the actions of individual actors. In order to illustrate the new entrepreneurial activity, this contribution outlines the rise and fall of the two rural “beet sugar dynasties” – that of the Yahnenko and the Symyrenko families.

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Złote łany, ziemniaczane pola i zagony buraków. Roślinny krajobraz polskiej wsi w perspektywie historii gospodarczej

Przegląd Humanistyczny ◽

10.5604/01.3001.0012.1841 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 62 (1 (460)) ◽

pp. 33-43

Author(s):

Piotr Koryś

Keyword(s):

Economic Development ◽

Sugar Beet ◽

19Th Century ◽

Sugar Industry ◽

Diesel Oil ◽

History Of ◽

The Times ◽

The 19Th Century ◽

The Village

The article discusses the role of plants in Poland’s economic development over the last 500 years. The author presents the role of five plants in the history of Poland’s development: cereals (wheat and rye), potatoes, sugar beet and rape. The specificity of the economic development of modern Europe has made Poland one of Europe’s granaries and an important exporter of cereals. This shaped the civilization of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and contributed to its fall due to institutional specificity. In the 19th century, potatoes played an important role in the population development of Polish lands, as they helped feed the rapidly growing population. The spread of sugar beet cultivation created the conditions for the development of modern sugar industry in the second half of the 19th century. It became one of the first modern branches of the food industry in Poland and contributed to the modernization of the village. Quite recently, oilseed rape was to become a plant that would bring back the times of agricultural sheikhs – no longer the nobility would trade in cereals on the European markets, but entrepreneurs producing a vegetable substitute for diesel oil.

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HISTORY OF THE BEET SUGAR INDUSTRY IN CALIFORNIA

Annual Publication of the Historical Society of Southern California ◽

10.2307/41168761 ◽

1918 ◽

Vol 11 (1) ◽

pp. 68-79 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

TORSTEN A. MAGNUSON

Keyword(s):

Sugar Industry ◽

Beet Sugar ◽

History Of

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Past, present and future of sugar beet quality analysis: a mini review

Sugar Industry ◽

10.36961/si23305 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 401-405

Author(s):

Stefan Meldau ◽

Manfred Burba ◽

Elke Hilscher

Keyword(s):

Sugar Beet ◽

Sugar Industry ◽

Quality Parameters ◽

Quality Analysis ◽

Special Focus ◽

Beet Sugar ◽

Technological Advances

Sugar beet quality analysis is an integral part of breeding and sugar beet processing and therefore contributes to the success of the beet sugar industry. This review summarizes the chronological development of important methods used for sugar beet quality analysis, with a special focus on the role that breeding companies, such as KWS, have played in establishing these methods. Finally, new technological advances are highlighted that provide possibilities to automate the analysis of quality parameters of fresh sugar beet outside of the laboratory.

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The French Beet Sugar Industry

Scientific American ◽

10.1038/scientificamerican03141903-22734supp ◽

1903 ◽

Vol 55 (1419supp) ◽

pp. 22734-22735

Keyword(s):

Sugar Industry ◽

Beet Sugar

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The fate of formaldehyde in sugar manufacture and in products

Sugar Industry ◽

10.36961/si16950 ◽

2015 ◽

pp. 692-696

Author(s):

Remi Aubry ◽

Laurence Gasnot

Keyword(s):

Sugar Industry ◽

Common Knowledge ◽

Microbial Populations ◽

Optimal Dosage ◽

Consumer Health ◽

Microbiological Activity ◽

Specific Process ◽

Beet Sugar ◽

Series Of Experiments

A study was carried out in six beet sugar factories in France during the 2012/13 sugar campaign. The objective was to assess the optimal dosage of formaldehyde solutions at specific process stages and in different existing factory set-ups in order to obtain the desired effect on microbial populations, without interference with the quality of the products. In addition harmlessness regarding consumer health was to be demonstrated. A series of experiments was conducted resulting in new data allowing refreshment of common knowledge and references existing regarding the use of formaldehyde solutions in the sugar industry. The effectiveness and convenience for controlling microbiological activity in beet sugar manufacture was assessed. Formaldehyde reduces sugar losses and protects in-process products without harming their further use, such as for ethanol production.

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