Foliar feeding of sugar beet at the final stages of yield formation.
Sugar beet is a profitable crop in Ukraine. Every year, including 2024, weather conditions adjust producers' expectations. Two months before the roots are lifted, agronomists face two main problems:
- Keeping the leaves healthy, since damage by cercospora can lead to significant yield losses.
- Supplying plants with the necessary nutrients to increase sugar accumulation and improve root quality.
In this period reliable plant protection with fungicides is needed, reinforced with phosphorus in phosphite form. In the mineral nutrition system it is important at this time to achieve fuller conversion of nitrogen compounds to reduce sugar losses during processing. For the second half of the sugar beet growing season ECOORGANIC offers the following foliar feeding programme:
- After row closure: to increase plant resistance to diseases and enhance photosynthesis – ECOLINE Magnesium (Chelates) 1.5 l/ha + GROS Phosphito-NP 1.0 l/ha.
- Last fungicide application: to increase sugar content, strengthen sugar synthesis and its flow into the root, and improve the technological quality of the sugar raw material – ECOLINE Phosphite (K-Amino) 1.0–1.5 l/ha.
