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Sugar Beet Production and Industry in China

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Sugar beet production and sugar industry in China started in the year 1906. Sugar beet is mainly grown in the northeast and northwest of China. This paper reviews the outline of current situation of sugar beet production and the present predicament of sugar beet industry, and discusses the sustainable development of the industry.

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Acknowledgments

Mr. Yang-rui Li, Wen-bin Su, Cheng-ye Li, Bai-chen Sun, Qing-fa Wang and Bing-jin Han are thanked for revising or providing data of sugar beet production in 2013/2014. This work was supported by the national sugar beet industry system (Project no. CARS210301: the beet cultivation in Northeast China).

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  1. Heilongjiang University, Harbin, 150080, Heilongjiang, China

    Gui Geng & Ji Yang

  2. Sugar Beet Research Institute of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Harbin, 150080, Heilongjiang, China

    Gui Geng & Ji Yang

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Geng, G., Yang, J. Sugar Beet Production and Industry in China. Sugar Tech 17, 13–21 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12355-014-0353-y

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