On January 11, 1799, Franz Carl Achard approached the Prussian King Frederick William III and informed him that he was able to produce sugar from beet. The communication was accompanied by a treatise “Ueber die Bereitung des Zuckers aus der Runkel-Rübe” (On the preparation of sugar from beet), in which he explained in twenty paragraphs how to cultivate beet and establish sugar production.
What the king received in his hands was the birth certificate of the beet sugar industry……
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