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Ministerium für Wirtschaft, Verkehr, Landwirtschaft und Weinbau
Rhineland-Palatinate
Stiftsstraße 9
55116 Mainz
Website: External link to the authority
Sustainable insect and disease management in the sugar beet cultivation of the future to secure cultivation and processing in Rhineland-Palatinate
Sugar beet growers face increasing challenges – climatic changes lead to the emergence of insects and diseases, which farmers are increasingly unable to combat as active ingredients and pesticides are diminishing. In addition, the lack of financial support leads to disadvantages and distortions of competition on the European market. The cultivation areas in Rhineland-Palatinate and Southern Hesse, as well as the processing site in Offstein (Rhineland-Palatinate), are to be maintained and promoted in the long term. Sugar beet cultivation in Rhineland-Palatinate is to be preserved as a valuable component of sustainable, resource-efficient crop rotation and for added value in rural areas. If possible, this should be accomplished, through detection and purposeful biological control or alternative measures (crop rotation etc.). In the project, new cultivation strategies are being developed which contribute to increasing production and securing earnings. The farmers learn to diagnose the pests that are no longer generally known. The development of a "pest calendar" and the proper diagnosis require implementation in digital media and forecasting models.
In the scope of the SBR- Monitoring two beet varieties could have been described as SBR- tolerant. Nevertheless, the planthopper Pentastiridius leporinus and SBR are spreading northwards and attacking other crops such as potatoes. Nematode application on planthoppers nymphs was able to reduce the pest abundance in the third year.
Further steps have been established:
-Rearing of planthopper
-quantitative real-time PCR for the detection of Proteobacterium and Stolbur
-Decision support systems (DSS) for planthopper abundance during season
-DSS for the beginning of infestation of virus-transmitting aphids
Further results:
-Identification of microbial antagonists having insecticidal effects, e.g. against weevils
-Addition of contact fungicides leads to an improved effect
Rural development 2014-2020 for Operational Groups (in the sense of Art 56 of Reg.1305/2013)
Verband der Hessisch-Pfälzischen Zuckerrübenanbauer e.V.
Rathenaustr. 10
67547 Worms
Phone: 06241-921920
Email: verband@ruebe.info
2019
completed
1,450,000
DEB39
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