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The Sugar Beet Crop

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Abstract

Since the end of the Second World War a technical revolution has changed sugar beet from a labour-intensive agricultural crop with static yields to one which is highly mechanised and with steadily improving yields. This is illustrated by the labour requirement for sugar-beet crops in Western Europe, which, in the mid-1950s, was still 350–400 man-hours/ha, but by the early 1980s had been reduced to as little as 50 man-hours/ha. Over the same period, and in spite of the adverse effects on yield of an initially rather brutal mechanisation, the yield of sugar has increased continuously (Fig. 3.1).

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Bosemark, N.O. (1993). Genetics and breeding. In: Cooke, D.A., Scott, R.K. (eds) The Sugar Beet Crop. World Crop Series. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0373-9_3

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