Sugar Beet Cultivation in the Tropics and Subtropics: Challenges and Opportunities

Sugar beet, an important sugar crop, is particularly cultivated in humid regions to produce beet sugar, fulfilling about 25% of the world’s requirement, supplementing cane sugar. However, not well adopted farming system tropics and subtropics, which largely due historically well-established production technology sugarcane lower awareness among local growers cultivation. Thus, poor understanding pest disease management lack processing units for partially hinder farmers large-scale adaptation subtropics. Recent climatic developments have drawn attention cultivation those regions, considering low water demand half growing duration (5–6 months) contrast sugarcane, sparing agricultural land extra crop. Nevertheless, a considerable knowledge gap exists when closely compared tropical subtropical growth conditions. Here, we examined leverage existing published articles regarding significance potential covering its pros cons comparison sugarcane. The challenges also been identified, possible mitigation strategies are suggested. Our assessment reveals that can be promising crop requirements higher salt resistance.