Special attention has been devoted to such areas as: sugar beet and sugar cane growing, agricultural machines, diseases, weeds and pests, beet and sugar cane manufacture (processes and machines), types of sugar, economic terms, international sugar organizations, EEC terminology of sugar regulations. Elsevier's Sugar Dictionary therefore facilitates communication between all those involved, directly or indirectly, in the manufacture or marketing of cane and beet sugar: growers, manufacturers of insecticides and agricultural equipment, sugar technologists, sugar plant designers and manufacturers, sugar brokers, sugar research institutes, translators and interpreters.