Italy: Beetroot, precision irrigation increases yields

Tests conducted by Cer and Coprob, as part of the three-year project on new irrigation systems for sugar beet, show that drip irrigation with the Irriframe irrigation board and mulching can lead to water savings while increasing the yield of roots and sucrose With new precision irrigation systems it is possible to save water resources while maximizing the resilience of sugar beet to climate change and increasing productivity and quality. In a nutshell, these are the preliminary results for the 2023 season recently presented by Cer, Anbi and Coprob at Acqua Campus, as part of the Focus Acqua project, on the sidelines of the start of the 2024 season for the sugar beet harvest. The well-known conditions of hydro-climatic instability require a change in the dry management of some crops such as sugar beet, grown on over 33 thousand hectares between Emilia-Romagna and Veneto. The research is inserted in this context, the result of an agreement signed between Coporob and Cer, which ...