Beet borscht, beet borscht, beet borscht!

It's not blood. It's beet.

International Confederation of European Beet Growers

Beet and potatoes would be stinky.

CIBE International Confederation of European Beet Growers

In EU, oilseed plants, particularly rapeseed, are used more often than sugar beet to produce biofuel.

The production of bioethanol, the raw materials for which are cereals and sugar beet, is expanding.

Today, several countries in the European Union (EU), including France, Sweden and the Netherlands, are implementing a sugar beet fuel network.

Sugar beet and cane growers worldwide are struggling to cope with inflation of production costs and drastic decreases in real revenues.

At the end of the past century, when heat engines appeared, people were conducting experiments with ethanol derived from beet as fuel.

The findings of the study also clearly show that women make a contribution of 43 per cent overall to the operations entailed in beet crop production.

However, the increase in demand for ethanol offers an alternative output and better prices on world markets, and should help the sugar economy and encourage young people to continue family farming of beet and cane.

Poles had worked in some agricultural jobs in sugar beet and wine harvesting even during the communist era. With the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989, labor flows, both legal and illegal, became much greater.

Bioethanol, which can be made from processing maize, sugar cane and beet, wheat, potatoes and a variety of other starch and sugar crops, is widely used in Brazil, the United States of America and parts of Europe.

34. The Helms Burton Act has increased the cost of financing and has delayed the granting of credits. It also interrupted financial operations linked to the sugar beet harvest, damaging one of our main export sectors and an important source of income.

In addition, their contribution to the work of sowing beet is 61 per cent, whereas their contribution to harvesting the crop is 53 per cent and falls to 33 per cent for loading and unloading, an operation that involves contact with strangers and the need to go beyond the production area.