PICTURE FROM THE ARCHIVE: Sugar beet hoeing gang on a farm near Newport in the 1950s or early 1960s. ‘Gangers’ employed women who were picked up by a coach from stops at Oakengates and ...

BACOLOD CITY — The spread of the destructive, red-striped soft scale insects (RSSI) in Negros Island has quadrupled in eight days and is now considered by the Sugar Regulatory Administration (SRA) as ...

tapping groundwater to irrigate a once 500-hectare stretch of desert – now home to the world’s largest beet sugar factory. China’s Zhongman Petroleum has drilled 193 wells over the past ...

Near the edge of the Sahara Desert, in Egypt’s West Minya, Chinese drillers bore deep into the earth, tapping groundwater to irrigate a once 500-hectare stretch of desert – now home to the world’s ...

Prepare the Beetroot Purée (for Dough or Filling). Roast or boil 1-2 beetroots until tender. Blend into a smooth purée. Make the Beetroot Pasta Dough Mix: 1½ cups all-purpose flour, 1 egg, 2–3 tbsp ...

The facility was once a fully operational sugar beet factory, but locals say it now functions as a packaging and warehousing location. “I live almost directly behind the plant,” said Margaret ...

South West Norfolk MP Terry Jermy, who visited the Wissington factory earlier this year ... uses three gas dryers to dry the beet pulp after the sugar has been extracted, turning it into ...

It is also the largest sugar beet factory in Europe. Labour are making the UK the global hub for the green technologies.” The Wissington factory has expanded to nearly twice the size since it was ...

Industry and Entrepreneurship Development Minister Sunil Handunnetti, stated that the government has no intention of closing the Sevanagala Sugar Factory. He described the reports suggesting otherwise ...

Wissington’s new steam dryers will be housed in a 25x15m building, around 20m tall, built in the heart of the site's sugar manufacturing area. The factory currently uses three gas dryers to dry the ...