CULTIVATION OF TABLE BEET IN ORGANIC CROP ROTATION
At present, the population of economically developed countries attaches great importance to healthy nutrition. To obtain ecologically clean products is possible in the system of organic farming, where crops are cultivated in the crop rotation system without the use of complex synthesized chemicals (fertilizers, herbicides, and pesticides). Table beet is one of the most common field vegetable crops, which occupies about 6% of the total area under the vegetables. In the technology of organic table beet cultivation, the technological operations for application of synthesized preparations are excluded. The nutrients needed for plant growth are supplied with organic fertilisers and by the use of special farming practices, which contribute to the improvement of plant nutrition. A number of operations are performed using manual labour, weeding in particular. Analysis of organic table beet production technology shows significantly lower fertiliser and herbicide costs, but the use of manual labour makes this technology substantially less efficient as a whole.