British Sugar PLC

Palm oil is in 50% of our supermarket products. It is unique in the vegetable oil market; it melts in your mouth, is great for cooking and is a high-yielding crop. However, palm oil is one of the biggest carbon emitters due to tropical rainforest and peatland loss to make way for plantations - it contributes over 500 million tonnes CO2e, over 1% global em...

The UK is approximately 50% self-sufficient in sugar production, with 2,300 English sugar beet farmers based in East Anglia and the East Midlands producing 7.4 million tonnes of sugar beet/year, valued at £216m (2021). Yet, the English sugar beet industry faces an existential threat from virus yellows, which in 2020 infected 38.1% of the English sugar bee...

To develop a decision support tool that optimises the harvest management of sugar beet.

The aim of this project is to minimise the impact of disease on yield of the UK sugar beet crop which is worth approximately £240M per year. Yield potential of the UK sugar beet crop is c.130 t/ha compared to an average yield of 70t/ha. One of the factors responsible for this yield gap is foliar diseases which can reduce yield by more than 50% and, whilst...

Innovative ICT can play a crucial role in many innovation processes, but its potential is not always exploited in many industries. A route to innovation in chemical using industries is the exploitation of materials in what would otherwise be lost to waste streams from current manufacturing processes. This is interesting both in terms of realising addition...

The project "Optimsing Sugar Beet Growth Yield through use of Space and Environmental Data" assesses the feasibility of combining earth observation (EO), environmental and in situ farm data to improve harvest productivty for growers of sugar beet and to enhance their capacity to manage the environment around the nation's sugar beet crop. The project bring...

Innovative ICT can play a crucial role in many innovation processes, but its potential is not always exploited in many industries. A route to innovation in chemical using industries is the exploitation of materials in what would otherwise be lost to waste streams from current manufacturing processes. This is interesting both in terms of realising addition...

Production of protein in the EU, supplies only 30 percent of the protein needed for animal feed, which has been increasing over the past decade. To meet this demand, large volumes of proteins and protein-rich feed stuff have to be imported into the EU. Up to 30 million tonnes (Mt) of Soya Bean Meal (SBM) equivalent are imported into the EU annually, and t...

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