Beetroot in Italy: Record production makes up for it

The average PLV of conventional beet in 2020 was around 2,800 euros / ha (1,900 euros / ha in 2019). Boom in sucrose yield Rice doesn't close well (read here), beetroot laughs. After two difficult years, Italian sugar beet growing has a really positive 2020. The data provided by Coprob, the only sugar-beet company left on the national territory, seal it. At the end of the harvests (the Pontelongo plant in Padua closed on October 17, Minerbio in Bologna on October 25) on over 27 thousand cultivated hectares (27,419), of which over 1,500 organic, the average production of conventional beet reached 69.8 tons per hectare (in 2019 it stopped at 60.4 t / ha) (Fig. 1). An interesting figure in itself that is strengthened with the values relating to polarization: in 2020 an average figure of 14.6 degrees was reached (in 2019 it was 12.8) (fig. 2). Sucrose over 10 t / ha The combination led to the real key number of the beet campaign: sucrose per hectare. Coprob points out that while in ...