Man has always included some form of sugar in his diet. Only in the past two centuries has sugar been developed as an individual food. During that time vast amounts of money and time have gone into the development and improvement of sugar. In 1747, a German chemist by the name of Andreas Marggraf proved that sugar beets contained sugar. One of his pupils, Franz Karl Achard, in 1799 gave further evidence of this fact by his experiments.

This thesis deals with a growing trend of the sugar industry in the Czech Republic. The first part of the work is focused on analysing of the agriculture aspects of the cane sugar cultivation. The following chapters are given to the world sugar production. The most important section the thesis is focused on development of the sugar industry and cultivation of sugarbeet in the Czech Republic, i.e development of the acreage of sugarbeet, rate of sugarbeet acreage on czech districts. Final part is given to the analysing of the sugar industry restrukturalization and influence of the European Union on the common trade of the given industry.