CONVISO® SMART – a new technology of sugar beet protection against weed plants in Belarus

Abstract

Under modern intensive agriculture conditions weed control is one of the major elements on which depends the increase in agricultural crops productivity in general and sugar beet in particular. In this article the results of studying the efficiency of a new for Belarus technology of sugar beet protection against weed plants – Conviso® smart, based on sugar beet hybrids resistant to acetolactatsyntase (ALS) inhibitors hybrids in a complex with the herbicide Conviso1, OD thiencarbazone-methyl, 30 g/l +foramsulfuron, 50 g/l) are presented. Depending on soil climatic year conditions , specific composition and weed number, the biological efficiency of the herbicide Conviso 1,OD by CONVISO® SMART protection technology application in a month after treatment has made 80–97% on weed plants number decrease and 84% on their vegetative weight decrease. The herbicide application allowed to get additionally 444–562 cwt/ha sugar beet and increase sugar output for 75–111 cwt/ha.