Investigations of the plant food requirements for sugarcane grown on the wind-blown, sandy soils of marine origin typical of the Natal coast, have. occupied the' attention, of numerous investigat6rsin past 'years. In some cases there has been shown to be little response to phosphate, whilst in the case of inorganic salts of potash and nitrogen a lack. of response or even a depressing effect on ...

number of fields now have less than 40 cm of soil (Shih et al., 1998). Second, for every cm of rainfall, the free Sugarcane (Saccharum spp.) is the primary crop on the Histosols water in the soil profile of EAA Histosols can be exof the Everglades Agricultural Area (EAA), where periodic floods pected to rise about 10 cm (Glaz et al., 2002). Finally, and undesirably high water tables are increas...

A field experiment was conducted at Sugarcane Research Station, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Sirugamani during (Plant crop) 2017-18 to find out the effect of intercropping and double row planting on growth attributes, yield sugarcane under Sustainable initiative. The experiments were laid in a strip plot design with three replications. main treatments comprised crop geometry viz., M1- 15...

sugarcane mite, oligonychus sacchari mcgregor, is one of the most important pests of sugarcane plant in khuzestan province, southwest of iran. during a two-year study (2007-2008), the biology of the sugarcane mite, o. sacchari, was investigated on three commercial varieties cp48-103, cp57-614 and cp69-1062 under laboratory conditions (temperature 30±1° c, rh% 60±5 and a photoperiod of 16:8 (l:d...

in order to investigate the effects of substrate and spawn levels on growth and development of florida oyster mushroom an experiment was conducted in 2005 at the laboratory of the department of horticulture, agriculture faculty, shahid chamran university, ahvaz. the design of the experiment was a factorial one of a randomized complete blocks of 3 replications. the two factors of substrate and s...

In the 1960s, yellowing symptoms in sugarcane were seen throughout East Africa. This was called ‘yellow-wilt’, a condition first described in Tanzania in 1962. The symptoms appear identical to those of Yellow Leaf Syndrome (YLS). In South Africa symptoms of YLS were first observed in 1994 and were conspicuous in varieties CP66/1043, N22 and N26, intermediate in N27 and less conspicuous in NCo37...