Organic sugar is different to conventionally produced sugar in that the whole of the value creation chain has an ecological focus. A start is made with sugar beet cultivation: Organic farmers follow organic farming guidelines. The adding of fertilisers to stocks of plants is undertaken using authorised fertilisers in the sense of a circular economy. In this way, it is possible to dispense with the use of chemical, synthetic fertilisers. Also, no chemical pesticides are used in organic sugar beet cultivation. As a consequence, weeds are mainly controlled by mechanical as well as thermal methods. The further development of agricultural machinery means that very modern precision technology is already being used in ecological sugar beet cultivation and that robot technology is widely used with the help of artificial intelligence.
Biological regulations are also followed when processing organic sugar beet to produce organic sugar and ecological by-products, e.g. organic beet pulp, organic molasses, organic pellets, etc., from the addition of authorised auxiliary agents up to the separate storage of the products. In this way, everyone involved in the value creation chain is eco-certified.