Abstract:

Sugar beet is an important sugar crop that has been planted for more than 100 years in China, but its purchase price has never been determined based on the sugar content, which is a common practice in the world. Sugar beet enterprises should establish the quality standard for sugar beet purchase to determine the price of sugar beet based on the sugar content, to deduct impurities and residual soil reasonably, to evaluate the cutting quality comprehensively. During implement the quality standard of sugar beet purchase, advanced equipment should be adopted to test sugar content scientifically in order to reduce human intervention and increase transparency, enhance sugar beet growers’ recognition of sugar beet quality testing. The purchase of sugar beet based on quality will solve the problem of high price low sugar content, and change growers’ habit of only paying attention to sugar beet yield but not sugar content. Planting optimizing measures should be taken to increase sugar content of sugar beet by fertilization, field management and the control of disease, pest and weeds. In the future, the purchase price of sugar beet based on sugar content will be adopted by sugar beet enterprises with the large-scale planting of sugar beet and the development of quality analysis technology in China.

Key words: sugar beet, sugar content, root quality, purchase, price based on quality