Sugar beet is a crop that has been grown for only two centuries. However, thanks to breeders' successes, it has high yield potential and therefore needs intensive growing technologies. Fertilization is one of the most important components of the technology. Optimal mineral nutrition of sugar beet requires basic fertilizers, a system of foliar feedings and nutrition correction during the season according to field conditions.
In recent years the weather has rarely been fully favorable for the growth and development of the crop, which also leaves its mark on plant mineral nutrition. Sugar beet suffers especially from weeds in the early development phases, so phytotoxicity may appear after herbicide application. Mineral nutrition is linked not only to plant productivity but also to plant health, on which the quality of the sugar raw material later depends. Unbalanced fertilization is one of the causes of root and leaf diseases.
To prevent a shortage of key nutrients in the second half of the sugar beet growing season, «ECOORGANIC» offers the following foliar feeding programme:
Leaf closure in the row until closure between rows: to enhance sugar accumulation and prevent physiological diseases - ECOLINE Boron (Premium) 1.5 l/ha + ECOLINE Copper (Chelate) 0.5 l/ha.
After closure between rows: to increase plant resistance to diseases and enhance photosynthesis - ECOLINE Magnesium (Chelates) 2.0 l/ha + GROS Phosphito-NP 1.5 l/ha.
Last fungicide treatment: to raise sugar content, enhance sugar synthesis and outflow into the root, and improve the technological quality of the sugar raw material - ECOLINE Phosphite (K-Amino) 1.5–2.0 l/ha.
