What is the main economic value of sugar beet?

Sugar beet and sugar cane are the two most important sugar crops in China, they contain exactly the same sugar composition, the product is sucrose. Sucrose is not only for people's direct consumption, but also an important raw material for food, medicine, chemical industry and other industrial sectors.

In recent years, the world energy crisis and environmental pollution problems are becoming more and more prominent, alcohol as a non-polluting biomass energy source, is increasingly being attached importance to the use of sugar beet production of alcohol has its unique advantages. Sugar beet sugar production process to get by-products of molasses, can produce monosodium glutamate, citric acid and adenosine triphosphate, vitamins, yeast, etc.; molasses can also become the production of acidulants, molding agents, plasticizers, paint emulsifiers and other important raw materials for the production of products. In addition to sugar beet tubers, its stems and leaves, chipped roots, tail roots and sugar beet residue are rich in nutrients and are good feed for livestock. The nutritional value of the dry matter of beet stems and leaves is comparable to that of wheat bran.