French beet growers ask for more visibility ahead of 2023 crop rotation
Sugar Beet
France
Published Jun 10, 2022
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The French Confederation of Beet Growers (CGB) defends the need to ensure the cultivation of beet in the face of increased production and energy costs, the pressure of alternative crops, and the risks of agronomic impasses induced by European political decisions taken without an impact study.
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The French Confederation of Beet Growers (CGB) defends the need to ensure the cultivation of beet in the face of increased production and energy costs, the pressure of alternative crops and the risks of agronomic impasses induced by European political decisions taken without an impact study. As crop rotation decisions for 2023 approach, the CGB is particularly concerned about the lack of information from French cooperative groups on beet prices, compared to French private companies, as well as most cooperative groups or European private companies, which have already announced their prices, which in many cases are higher than €35/t for 2022 beet. The war in Ukraine has increased the costs of fertilizers and fuel, which has added a further increase of 20-25% in 2022 compared to 2021, according to estimates by the International Confederation of European Beet Growers (CIBE). . If to this increase in costs is added the strong agronomic restrictions (obligations linked to the succession ...
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