Sugar beet in Poland will benefit from NGT technology

Sugar Beet

Vegetables

Poland

Innovation & Technology

Published Mar 1, 2024

Tridge summary

Rafał Strachota, director of KZPBC, is urging for Polish farmers to have access to new genomic techniques to enhance sugar beet yields. These techniques could improve yield, plant quality, growth rate, rooting depth, and resistance to pests, diseases, and environmental stress. Strachota notes the challenges faced by European growers due to restrictions on substances permitted in other countries and the stagnation in sugar beet yields caused by droughts and the withdrawal of key active substances. Meanwhile, the European Community is slowly accepting New Genomic Techniques (NGT) varieties, proposing two categories: NGT 1 and NGT 2. However, there are concerns about the exclusion of herbicide-resistant plant varieties from the regulation, which is seen as anti-scientific.

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- As a representative of sugar beet growers, I hope that farmers in Poland will be able to benefit from new genomic techniques and will be able to grow varieties obtained thanks to these techniques on their farms - said Rafał Strachota, director of KZPBC, during a debate organized by BASF. According to him, farmers should have access to a range of improvements that can be implemented using these techniques. New varieties could be characterized by better yield, plant quality, faster growth, deeper rooting and, finally, greater resistance to pests and diseases, or have increased tolerance to environmental stress. Stagnation in sugar beet yields Strachota also pointed out that no higher beet yields have been recorded for several years. Stagnation in sugar beet yields in Poland. Slide KZPBC Photo. AK There are many reasons for this. Strachota drew attention to droughts that occur in different growing seasons and last longer and longer. As an example, he gave the extent of drought in ...

Source: Farmer.pl