tereshchenko decided to take advantage of his stay in the suburbs of paris to study french. in addition, he became friends with a group of young scientists who have worked on the problem of the production of sugar from beets at the university of beauvais under the leadership of jean-say basta, and learned the ins and outs of the process. he was delighted and immediately realized that if he would use sugar beet in production at his homeland, as there were growing beets of excellent quality, this could be one of the stages to win a fight against hunger. tereshchenko studied all the material, which he had an access to, gathered as much information about the extraction of sugar from beets and vowed to apply this knowledge in practice as soon as he returned to ukraine.