CONVISO SMART tehnology: weed control in the sugar beet of the future is a new solution to old problems

Abstract

The aim of our study was to investigate the new CONVISO®SMART technology for weed control in sugar beet.

Two factors were investigated: Yield potential of sugar beet hybrids of CONVISO®SMART technology; Effectiveness of CONVISO®SMART system in

controlling weed population. The experimental plots were randomized, in 4 repetitions, in the period 2018-2022.

Results of variety testing. The first testing in 2018 of sugar beet hybrids of the new technology revealed that the initial lineup was low in genetic potential and averaged cca. 83.1% of the standard. The best of all new hybrids was SM Gioconda 5K 620, which achieved 101.7 % in terms of purified sugar yield per ha compared to the standard.

Herbicide testing results: the first test in 2020 of the CS systems for weed control performance compared to the classical protection system found that the CS system provided 4.44 tons of sugar harvest per 1 ha (100 %) compared to the classical system, which provided 4.26 tons of sugar harvest per 1 ha (95.9 %). Sugar harvest in the 1st control without protection was 1.88 tons/ha (42.5 %).