b'Sugar was produced experimentally from beets in Germany in 1747 by chemist Andreas Marggraf, but the first beet-sugar factory was built in 1802 in Silesia (now in Poland).One of Margraffs students, Franz Karl Achard, conducted research in this area and because of his success in establishing the beet as an economic source of sucrosein Europe, he is now consideredto be the father of thesugarbeet industry. 1 2 3In several countries, The sugar beet root contains a high notably the Czech Republic andconcentration of sucrose, second Slovakia, beet sugar is used to make only to sugarcane as the major a rum-like distilled spirit called Tuzemak. source of the worlds sugar with sorghum taking third spot. EUROPEAN-SEED.COMIEUROPEAN SEED I 59'