in this study, the performance of different cultivation methods on sugar beet fields was evaluated. eight treatments were considered: a) use of a rolling cultivator twice during the growing season; b) use of a rolling cultivator three times during the growing season; c) use of a crescent cultivator twice during the growing season; d) use of a crescent cultivator three times during the growing s...

Beet curly top virus (BCTV), genus Curtovirus, and other closely related curtoviruses transmitted by the beet leafhopper Circulifer tenellus (Baker) have caused significant problems to irrigated agriculture in the western United States for over a century (4). BCTV is known to infect a broad range of crop and weed hosts in many plant families (1). The leafhopper vector also feeds and breeds on a...

abstract the purpose of this study is investigating factors affect on probability of willingness to pay sugar beet farmers for taking of agricultural extension services. logit model was used for cross sectional data in 2009 between 150 sugar beet farmers that were selected by random sampling in the city of mashhad. in addition, tobit model was used to analyse factors affecting on willingness to...

sugar beet is one of the main crops in iranthat provides primary materials for sugar industries and so, its economic aspects are very important. one of these aspects is employment; it has begged to draw policy maker attentions. nevertheless, there hasnot been any survey study on this matter in iranyet. in this study, the current value of labor use in sugar beet cultivation (direct employment) i...

rhizomania (root madness) is caused by beet necrotic yellow vein virus (bnyvv). this disease was first reported fromitalyin 1959 and fromfars,iranin 1996. during the recent years, it has been increasingly developing across the country so that most beet production areas such as khorasan, fars, west azarbaijan,isfahanandkermanshahare now more or less affected by the disease. typically, the taproo...