REPORT ON SUGAR CAMPAIGN 2015/2016 IN CZECH REPUBLIC

The year 2015/2016 can be assessed as very successful although the values did not reach those of the previous campaign, which was historically the most successful as well as record-breaking in length. The article sums up the information on weather during the individual months of the year 2015. The text itself only comments on several values and is accompanied by tables with average or respectively summary data from the final technological, water-management, and energetical reports. There were seven sugar factories in operation, or rather five companies, similar number as during the previous years. The processing capacities ranged from 2,000 to 14,850 t/day of beet, campaign operation in the Czech Republic lasted from 21 September 2015 to 16 January 2016. The average sugar content of the processed beet reached 18.01%. The total amount of the processed standard beet was 4.017 mil. t, sugar 3.392 mil. t. The total physical production of sugar in the Czech Republic (i.e. produc-tion for the Czech Republic and foreign production, made-to-order, outside the Czech Republic) corresponds to the processing capability of 521,180 t, production only in the Czech Republic was 498,974 t. The biological sugar yield was 10.3 t ha. Apart from the production of white sugar, certified organic sugar and fermentation alcohol (bioethanol) were also produced.