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Abstract
INTRODUCTION
Sugarbeet, Beta vulgaris L. was the second major sugar crop grown in the newly reclaimed desert, sugarbeets that contributed. Currently, Sugarbeet (Beta vulgaris L.) is deliberated as the first sugar crop in Egypt cultivated in 492.708 feddans contributing 57.7% of sugar production in Egypt with an average production of 21.06 tons per feddan (Annual Report of Sugar Crops Council, December 2018). An increase in production is attributed to higher procurement prices especially for sugarbeets GAIN (Global Agricultural Information Network Report, 2019).
In Egypt industrial demand for sugarbeets is increasing, which provides a higher price, incentivizing many farmers to plant more beets. Foreign Agriculture Service (FAS) Cairo stated that is increasing sugarbeet area harvested in May, 2019/20 to 250,000 ha. The post is revising down last year‟s harvested area to 225,000 hectares instead of 230,000. With the decreased area harvested, a post also revised down May, 2018/19 production to 9.5 MMT, six percent below earlier estimates (GAIN Report, 2019).
As sugarbeet production growing, challenges augmenting