Influence of the Fertilization Pattern on Production and Quality of Sugar Beet Roots Meant for Bio-Ethanol Extraction
Ricuţa-Vasilica Dobrinoiu1, Luminiţa Vişan2, Silvana Dănăilă-Guidea3, Andrei-Gabriel Ivan4, Marius Căruţaşu5
1Dr. Ricuţa-Vasilica Dobrinoiu, University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine Bucharest, Faculty of Biotechnology, Bucharest, Maraşti Bvd, no. 59, zip code 011464, Bucharest, Romania.
2Dr. Luminiţa Vişan, University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine Bucharest, Faculty of Biotechnology, Bucharest, Maraşti Bvd, no. 59, zip code 011464, Bucharest, Romania.
3Dr. Silvana Dănăilă-Guidea, University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine Bucharest, Faculty of Biotechnology, Bucharest, Maraşti Bvd, no. 59, zip code 011464, Bucharest, Romania.
4Andrei-Gabriel Ivan, University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine Bucharest, Faculty of Agriculture, Bucharest, Maraşti Bvd, no. 59, zip code 011464, Bucharest, Romania.
5Marius Căruţaşu, University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine Bucharest, Faculty of Management, Bucharest, Maraşti Bvd, no. 59, zip code 011464, Bucharest, Romania.
Manuscript received on February 11, 2015. | Revised Manuscript Received on February 12, 2015. | Manuscript published on January 18, 2015. | PP: 09-14 | Volume-2 Issue-3, February 2015.
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Abstract: Sugar beet growing as raw material for bioethanol production represents an extremely important opportunity for farmers, under the circumstances of some productive varieties use on areas adequately irrigated and fertilized. In comparison with the maize, used as raw material in bio-ethanol production, the sugar beet offers a series of important advantages, such as: the acquirement of a bigger ethanol quantity on the cultivated area (6.300 l bioethanol from sugar beet, in comparison with almost 3.400 l bioethanol obtained from maize grown per hectar), the crop adequacy in colder climate areas, unfavourable to maize, and an irrigation norm with 40 smaller. In this respect, on the one hand, the present work aims at bringing viable and pheasible arguments in favour of sugar beet crops fertilization, in order to obtain an economic effective production, especially during the years with low precipitations and, on the other hand, for a superior valorization of sugar beet production by bioethanol production.
Keywords: Bioethanol, foliar fertilization, organic fertilization, sugar beet.