To help them, officials of the Ministry of Regional Industry and relevant units have provided proactive sci-tech guidance and necessary conditions.

The Food and Consumer Goods Institute conducted a research for raising the rate of the actual extraction of sugar from canes and beets and confirmed the technical indices necessary for increasing the productivity. It is now striving to introduce the findings into practice.

It has also stepped up the work to establish a rational process for improving the quality of stevioside and normalizing the production.

Its researchers and technicians are concentrating efforts on the work to settle the sci-tech problems arising in increasing the effectiveness of filtering and refining lines.