Lifting sugar beet with a brand-new 12 row Holmer / Agrifac Hexx Traxx beet harvester from contractor Rovers of Boekel, The Netherlands. The beets are carted away using a Gilles self- propelled beet chaser.
Sugar beet, a 2-year agricultural plant from the spinach family, where sugar is obtained from its fleshy root. Vegetative organs develop in 1 year and generative organs in the second year. Its seeds are combined.
Its height varies between 85-180 cm depending on the place where it grows, climate and species. The European Union, USA and Russia take the first three places in world production. It is a commercial herb. 30% of sugar production in the world is obtained from sugar beet.
The structure of sugar beet consists of 4-5% cell tissue, 4-5% chemically bound water and 90-95% juice. The composition of beet juice consists of 15-18% sugar (sucrose), 1.0-1.6% other non-sugar organic substances and 0.8% inorganic salts. Turkey is located in the world production of sugar beet # 5.
