It's not blood. It's beet.

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.

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.