LIST OF RECOMMENDED SUGAR BEET VARIETIES IN CZECH REPUBLIC FOR 2014

Forty-one varieties entered the list of recommended sugar beet varieties in the year 2013. In tests, seeds treated with Cruiser Force preparation were used exclusively. Weather conditions were different than in past years, extreme humidity was replaced by high temperatures without rainfall. This was the cause of increase in tuber weight and decrease in sugar content The list is published every year by the Central Institute for Supervising and Testing in Agriculture (UKZUZ) commissioned by the Ministry of Agriculture of the Czech Republic. Those who take part in the process are Sugar Beet Growers Associations, sugar companies and seed firms. The testing replaces the former system of United testing of registered sugar beet varieties (existing since 1993). Leaf diseases, yield, sugar content, sugar yield etc. are evaluated. The overall indicator, the INDEX, expresses parameters of a variety to the average of all tested assortment on a relative scale. The varieties are evaluated independently within the same tolerance. SDO lists not only the 2013 results, but also the two-and three-year long evaluation results. Results from Bezno and Lutin locality, where the beet cyst nematode appeared, are shown separately