EFFECTIVENESS OF HERBICIDES APPLICATION IN SOWINGS OF SUGAR BEET

Abstract

The article presents the results of a 3-year test of the herbicides Lontrel Grand, VDG, Piraklid, VDG and Lontrel-300, BP, used to reduce the clogging of sugar beet crops by perennial dicotyledonous root weeds and increase crop yields. In Ryazan region the conditions these malignant plants are found in almost all fields sown with sugar beets, which is particularly vulnerable because being a root crop it cannot seriously compete with weeds. With a strong contamination of the crop by perennial dicotyledonous root shoot weeds its yield may decrease by more than 50%. Tests of drugs were carried out on sugar beet cultivar Ocean sowings on the experimental field of the institute in four replications. The size of the experimental plots is 50 m². The soil of the experimental plot is dark gray forest heavy loam, the content of humus is 3.8%, pH is 5.8 ... 6.0, the forecrop is winter wheat. The tested herbicides were introduced with the “Agrotop” backpack compression sprayer equipped with a two-meter boom, consumption rate of the working solution was 200 l / ha. Twice sprayed in the phase of cotyledon leaves and 2 - 3 pairs of real leaves of the crop, once – in the phase of 2 - 3 pairs of leaves. The development phase of perennial dicotyledonous offset weeds during the first spraying is the leaf rosette, during the second spraying the length of the sow-thistles and thistles is 10 ... 20 cm. With the level of weediness of the crops by the Cirsium arvense, Sonchus arvensis to 26 pcs / m2 the studied preparations reduced the weediness of the crops of these weeds by 85.0 - 92.0% and increased beet root crops by 2.8 - 4.4 t / ha.