Field and laboratory evaluation of different controlling agents against the tortoise beetle, cassida vittata vill.and the rib miner, scrobipalpa ocellatella boyd infesting sugar beet in Egypt [electronic resource].

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Sugar crops (sugar-beet and sugar-cane) receive great attention in Egypt because of their strategic and industrial values. In the year 2005, Egypt produced 1,497,745 tons of sugars (1,048,337 tons from cane and 449,418 tons from beet) while the consumption reached 2,200,000 tons that created a 800.000 tons gap which is filled by the importation from the international market. Sugar-beet has received special attention in the last two decades in Egypt because of its great value in sugar extracting (15-20 %) from the roots (Fathy et aI., 1986) and the use of its by-products in producing untraditional animal food, as well as many other secondary products.

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