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Sugar Industry: Before sugar beet was introduced in Austria, cane 
sugar was imported from India and the Austrian sugar industry was 
confined to the refining of white sugar. The first Austrian sugar 
plant was founded under Empress Maria Theresia in the free port of 
Fiume/Rijeka in 1750. After 1810, cane sugar began to be replaced by 
beet sugar and the Marchfeld Plain became the main area in which sugar 
beet was cultivated (sugar plant at Duernkrut, Leopoldsdorf and 
Hohenau). The sugar industry experienced a great upswing during the 
reign of Franz Josef, with the main production sites in the 
Sudetenland. Sugar became an important export item of the 
Austro-Hungarian Monarchy and only 6 out of the 218 factories were 
located in the territory of contemporary Austria: Duernkrut (built in 
1867), Hohenau (1868), Leopoldsdorf (1867) and Bruck an der Leitha 
(1909) in Lower Austria; Hirm and Siegendorf in Burgenland (1852). New 
factories were established at Enns (1929) and Tulln (1937) during the 
era of the First Republic. The 3 remaining sugar plants at Tulln, 
Leopoldsdorf and Hohenau were merged into the  AGRANA Beteiligungs-AG 
in 1994, which also owns 2 starch factories at Gmuend and Aschach. 
Sugar production in 1997/98 amounted to about 483,900 t of white 
sugar. The annual production output depends on the weather, with hot 
and dry summers leading to smaller crops. The Austrian sugar harvest 
and processing season lasts from October until January.


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