CANE CONCERNS & SOLUTIONS PRIVATE LIMITED

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Introduction Traditional sugarcane production system involves various inputs contributing towards cost of production, out of various inputs, the seed contribute to around 10 per cent of the total inputs in the form of setts (sugarcane cuttings of two/three eyes) which comes in tune of around 6-8 tons per hectare. The bulky seed cane creates a lot of logistical challenges in handling, transportation and storage. Among the alternate methods, the true to type propagation of planting material based on tissue culture technique is suggested, but, owing to its high cost and cumbersome production technology, it has its own limitations of high costing which proves it to beyond the purchase by the farmers, hence become uneconomical. A viable alternative is single bud culture technology which reduces the mass and enables quick multiplication of true to type saplings of certified variety seeds. In this method, the buds are scooped or taken out as a single bud from the selected seed cane by bud chipper or cutter, the single buds are treated with an appropriate pesticide and placed in pro-trays filled with grow media. The seedlings ready to transplant takes about 6 to 7 weeks in nursery beds. Several advantages have been reported by adopting this type of sugarcane crop production system, such as-1. farmers have sufficient time to prepare their fields 2. saving in the cane seed cost as only 2-3 tons/ h seed is required while in conventional cropping system 8-10 tons/ h will be needed 3. saving of 2-3 irrigations as planting of saplings is the field is done after one-month old sugarcane plant 4. weeds and pests can be managed efficiently since a wide gap between plant to plant and row to row is suggested for transplanting the saplings 5. synchronous tillering is observed by planting almost same size of saplings in a same day leading to uniform maturity 6. option of intercropping with vegetables or other short duration crops can be possible in available gap among rows and 7. overall package of practices with efficient crop management make possible to increase in yield by two folds as sugarcane being a handsome PAR utilization crop can enjoy sufficient light radiation due to wide gap among saplings.

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