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Root crops

Root and tuber crops are plants yielding starchy roots and are used mainly for human consumption, animal feed, as well as manufacturing starch, and alcoholic beverages.From carrots, potatoes, sugar beets to cassava and ginger, root crops provide many of the world's poorest producers an essential source of nutrition.

In Europe, the most important root crops, in terms of area in production are potato and sugar beet. Both require investment in specialised machinery or the use of contractors, and most potato producers require long-term storage facilities and grading systems. The two main challenges for organic root production are disease and nutrient management.

On this page, you find tools addressing these, among other, challenges and successes related to the production of root crops.

Tools

Title	Issuing organisation	Project	Year of release	Rating
Calculate the risk of wireworm infestation in the field (OK-Net Arable Practice...	FiBL - Research Institute of Organic Agriculture	OK-Net Arable	2017	2 (1)
Commercial organic fertiliser as supplementary fertilisers in potato crop...	FiBL - Research Institute of Organic Agriculture	OK-Net Arable	2017	4 (1)
Compost for planting - Against Rhizoctonia root rot disease in potatoes	FiBL - Research Institute of Organic Agriculture , University of Kassel		2020
Control of wireworms in organic potato cultivation	FiBL - Research Institute of Organic Agriculture	OK-Net Arable	2016	3 (3)
Controlling potato beetles with Bt (OK-Net Arable Practice abstract)	FiBL - Research Institute of Organic Agriculture	OK-Net Arable	2017	4 (1)
Late blight on potatoes in organic farming - prognosis (Öko-SIMPHYT)	ISIP - Informationssystem Integrierte...	OK-Net Arable	2010
Planting sugar beets instead of sowing - reducing the time on weed control	FiBL - Research Institute of Organic Agriculture , Fondation Rurale Interjurassienne		2020
Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.)	Rete Semi Rurali	Liveseed	2009
Potato Crop Managementn(FiBL Technical Guide)	FiBL - Research Institute of Organic Agriculture	OK-Net Arable	2010
Pre-sprouting of potato seed tubers (Liveseed Practice Abstract)	AREI - Institute of Agricultural Resources and...	Liveseed	2020
Reducing the use of copper in potatoes (OK-Net Arable Practice Abstract)	FiBL - Research Institute of Organic Agriculture	OK-Net Arable	2017	5 (1)
Seed health in potatoes (Liveseed Practice Abstract)	LBI - Louis Bolk Institute	Liveseed	2020
Weed control in organic sugar beet - 4 machines compared (Steketee IC-Weeder,...	FiBL - Research Institute of Organic Agriculture , Fondation Rurale Interjurassienne		2020

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