Sugar beet production in the European Union and their future trends

Řezbová, Helena; Belová, Anna; Skubna, Ondrej

doi:10.22004/ag.econ.162299

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“…Only recently have high-end weeding machines, including the optical weeder and rotary harrow, become available that can replace human labor. This creates good conditions for increasing the area of organically cultivated beet in many European countries [29][30][31], including the organization of such cultivation in Poland, for the benefit of growers, organic food consumers, and biodiversity [32]. With the increasing demand for organic sugar, low cultivation costs, due to mechanical weeding, offer a real chance to reduce the price of organic sugar.…”

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Optimizing an Organic Method of Sugar Beet Cultivation and Yield Gap Decrease in Northern Poland

Tyburski,

Nowakowski,

Nelke

et al. 2024

Agriculture

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In the period of 2016–2018, two series of field studies on organic sugar beet growing (Beta vulgaris L.) were carried out in northern Poland on Luvisol loamy soil (medium–heavy) soil in Bałcyny and Płonne. The aim of this study was to decrease the yield gap between organic and conventional beets. Factors to increase the yield of organic beet were differentiated fertilization (cattle farmyard manure (FYM), compost, and Bioilsa) and choice of varieties (Eliska, Jampol, and Sobieski). The reference point was the conventional cultivation of the same sugar beet varieties, fertilized with manure and NPK mineral fertilizers, the prevailing standard of sugar beet cultivation in Poland. High sugar beet root yields exceeding the average yield in Poland by 25–30% were obtained in both studies, both in conventional and organic cultivation. Higher root and white sugar yields were obtained in the study conducted at Płonne (with similar soil conditions to those at Bałcyny), but they were characterized by higher temperatures during the growing season. The lowest root yields in both experiments were obtained by fertilizing the organic beet with compost (66.1 t per ha in Bałcyny and 78.13 t per ha in Płonne), which were 10.8% and 8.5% lower than the conventional crop, respectively. Higher root yields in organic cultivation were obtained by fertilizing the sugar beet with FYM, which reduced the differences from conventional beet to 7.7% in the study in Bałcyny and 2.1% in the study in Płonne. Thus, the results showed no need to convert cattle FYM to compost. The highest root yields in organic cultivation were obtained by fertilizing the sugar beet with Bioilsa N 12.5 supplemented with mineral fertilization of K, Mg, and S (Patentkali). This fertilization provided a yield of 78.1 t of roots per ha in Bałcyny, which is a reduction in the yield gap to 1.4%, a statistically insignificant value. Moreover, in the study at Płonne, organic sugar beet fertilized with Bioilsa and Patentkali yielded 86.7 t of roots per ha, compared to 85.6 t per ha of conventional beet, so a yield gap was not seen here. The choice of varieties was also of great importance for root and pure sugar yields in both farming systems. The lowest yields were obtained from the Eliska variety, and at Bałcyny, a change of beet cultivar to Jampol increased the organic root yield from 68.8 t per ha to 76.0 t per ha, while reducing the yield gap from 10.1% to 2.2%. At Płonne, replacing the Eliska variety with Jampol reduced the yield gap between organic and conventional roots from 6.6% to 0.3%.

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Optimizing an Organic Method of Sugar Beet Cultivation and Yield Gap Decrease in Northern Poland

Tyburski,

Nowakowski,

Nelke

et al. 2024

Agriculture

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“…Sugar beet varieties are developed for a range of markets around the world, from the dry climates of the Middle East to the temperate climates of Europe and North America ( Morillo-Velarde and Ober, 2008 ). Although there are many studies looking at the effects of irrigation on sugar beet in drier climates ( Mohammadian et al., 2005 ; Hassanli et al., 2010 ; Topak et al., 2011 ; Li et al., 2019 ), in much of Europe, irrigation is not economically feasible ( Rezbova et al., 2013 ) and sugar beet WUE must be increased to maximize the use of rainfall to reach the crop’s full yield potential ( Hoffmann and Kenter, 2018 ). Despite a maritime ancestry, which makes sugar beet more drought tolerant than many major crop species ( Dunham, 1993 ), yield losses are still evident under drought with unirrigated losses in Europe ranging from 15-40% depending on the regional climate and soil type ( Pidgeon et al., 2001 ).…”

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Water use efficiency responses to fluctuating soil water availability in contrasting commercial sugar beet varieties

Barratt

Murchie²,

Sparkes³

2023

Front. Plant Sci.

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Many areas of sugar beet production will face hotter and drier summers as the climate changes. There has been much research on drought tolerance in sugar beet but water use efficiency (WUE) has been less of a focus. An experiment was undertaken to examine how fluctuating soil water deficits effect WUE from the leaf to the crop level and identify if sugar beet acclimates to water deficits to increase WUE in the longer term. Two commercial sugar beet varieties with contrasting upright and prostrate canopies were examined to identify if WUE differs due to contrasting canopy architecture. The sugar beet were grown under four different irrigation regimes (fully irrigated, single drought, double drought and continually water limited) in large 610 L soil boxes in an open ended polytunnel. Measurements of leaf gas exchange, chlorophyll fluorescence and relative water content (RWC) were regularly undertaken and stomatal density, sugar and biomass yields and the associated WUE, SLW and Δ13C were assessed. The results showed that water deficits generally increase intrinsic (WUEi) and dry matter (WUEDM) water use efficiency but reduce yield. Sugar beet recovered fully after severe water deficits, as assessed by leaf gas exchange and chlorophyll fluorescence parameters and, except for reducing canopy size, showed no other acclimation to drought, and therefore no changes in WUE or drought avoidance. Spot measurements of WUEi, showed no differences between the two varieties but the prostrate variety showed lower Δ13C values, and traits associated with more water conservative phenotypes of a lower stomatal density and greater leaf RWC. Leaf chlorophyll content was affected by water deficit but the relationship with WUE was unclear. The difference in Δ13C values between the two varieties suggests traits associated with greater WUEi may be linked to canopy architecture.

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Production of Beet Sugar and Bio-ethanol from Sugar beet and it Bagasse: A Review

Duraisam¹,

Salelgn²,

Berekete³

2017

IJETT

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Sugar beet production in the European Union and their future trends

Cited by 12 publications

References 5 publications

Optimizing an Organic Method of Sugar Beet Cultivation and Yield Gap Decrease in Northern Poland

Optimizing an Organic Method of Sugar Beet Cultivation and Yield Gap Decrease in Northern Poland

Water use efficiency responses to fluctuating soil water availability in contrasting commercial sugar beet varieties

Production of Beet Sugar and Bio-ethanol from Sugar beet and it Bagasse: A Review

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