Sustainable Initiative Technology for Enhanced Cane Production and Profitable Economic Returns: A Review

Ashok Kumar, S.R. Singh, M.C. Yadav, B.D. Bhuj, Shri Dhar, N.K. Pruthi, Raj Kumar, Vikas Bajpai, Mohd. Rizwan, Jyoti ., Ravi Singh Thapa, Vijay Kumar, Harish Kumar, Bishal Kumar Mishra, Vidhur Kumar, Anurag Rajput, Amit Singh, Rajesh Kumar

Abstract


The new technology of sugarcane planting, known as one-eye-set seedlings, offer a high standard of plant health and vegetative vigor. Sugarcane crop requires huge quantity of seed cane for planting under conventional method, which contributes a major share in cost of cultivation. Besides, large quantity of seed material poses a big challenge for transportation and handling. This problem can be effectively addressed through adoption of sustainable sugarcane initiative through planting of bud chips, which can save the cost and inconveniences associated with conventional planting methods. Several authors have reported advantages of planting single bud chips over conventional methods with respect to germination, crop establishment, growth and development of sugarcane crop. Sustainable sugarcane initiative technology favourably influenced various yield attributing factors such as plant stand, millable cane per clump and weight of single cane thereby resulting in higher yield. Some authors have also recorded higher brix value and higher juice weight at harvesting stage with planting of single chip bud seedlings of sugarcane. Compared with conventional method, economics of cultivation goes in favour of bud chip method of planting. Based on research findings by various workers, it can be said that planting of sugarcane by bud chip method is superior to planting by conventional methods. The first species hybrids were obtained in 1893 by Wakker, who crossed noble sugar cane, Saccharum officinarum, with Kassoer, considered by him as a wild species. In later years it appeared from morphological investigations by Jeswiet, (1916) and from cytological investigations by Bremer, (1921) that Kassoer is to be considered as a spontaneous hybrid between S. officinarum and S. spontaneum, the wild glagah. In 1895 Kobus imported the Indian sugar cane Chunnee in Java

Keywords


Sugarcane, bud chip method, sustainable sugarcane initiative

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