Not everybody knows that each year about 630.000 kilos of sugar is being produced in Abruzzo.

The sugar-beet cultivation covers about 4.000 hectares, 2.000 of which are on the Fucino plain, one of the traditional areas in Italy for sugar-beet growing, and 400 of them are located in the Palentini fields, in the Marsica area; and in the coastal areas near Chieti, Pescara and Teramo.

All of the sugar-beet is converted after harvesting, in the sugar-refineries of Termoli and Celano, where a company named Sadam packages the product in little bags and cartons.