BREST, 26 January (BelTA) - Zhabinka Sugar Mill has concluded the sugar beets processing season, Director General of Zhabinka Sugar Mill Aleksandr Poznansky told BelTA.
The mill processed 1,401,000 tonnes of sugar beets. “This is a record harvest and the longest processing season in the entire history of Zhabinka Sugar Mill. We started on 5 September and finished on 25 January. Ultimately, we will produce about 189,500 tonnes of sugar. We have never produced this much before,” Aleksandr Poznansky noted.
Sugar production is a quite labor-intensive process. From the fields, the sweet root crops first go to beet receiving stations, and from there, they proceed to processing. The beets are washed, sliced, and the resulting shavings are subjected to diffusion. Then, the beet juice is purified at the defecosaturation station, excess water is evaporated to obtain syrup, from which sugar is crystallized. The final stage is packaging. After this, the product is sent to stores.
