This experiment was conducted to evaluate the intake, nutrient apparent digestibility and the effect of total collection days (two and four days) on apparent digestibility estimates for lambs fed diets containing sugar cane treated with calcium oxide (CaO). Eight Santa Inês castrated male lambs with a 16.6±1.8 kg body weight were used. The lambs were distributed in two 4×4 Latin squares, with f...

FIJI leaf gall is one of Australia’s most serious diseases of sugarcane and represents a significant problem in almost half of the total area under sugarcane production. Rating sugarcane clones for resistance/susceptibility is difficult and expensive, due to the nature of field-based methods and variable infection levels of trials. Despite the recent development of glasshouse methods to evaluat...

Molasses is a significant by-product of sugar beet or sugar cane refining industry. In this work, the effects of storage temperature and packaging on the contents of free amino acids (AAs) in sugar beet and sugar cane molasses after freeze drying were inquired. The effect of different variables such as, temperature (4 and 25˚C) and light (Metallized polypropylene container and Normal polypropyl...

BACKGROUND To determine the possible genotoxic effect of exposure to the smoke generated by biomass burning on workers involved in manual sugar cane harvesting. METHODS The frequency of micronuclei in exfoliated buccal cells and peripheral blood lymphocytes was determined in sugarcane workers in the Barretos region of Brazil, during the harvest season and compared to a control population, com...

introduction: sugar cane is a giant plant of grain products. regarding the benefits of the use of medications with herbal origin, in the present study the impact of sugar cane extract on atherosclerosis and ldl-c and hdl-c in the serum of hypercholesterolemic rabbits was studied. materials and methods: 24 adult male new zealand rabbits race with an average weight of 2 kg were classified into fo...

Sugar cane growers in Puerto Rico are faced with problems of weed control as any other farmer in the world. He is faced with increased cost of production of cane, through higher labor and material costs. When labor costs were low, much of the weed control was done by many men using machetes and other implements. As every farmer knows "weeds are plants out of place." Since beginning of farming, ...

There are several areas in the South African sugar industry where the ubiquitous variety, NCo 376, is beingsuperseded by newer varieties. Growers have a choice of varieties which have outyielded NCo 376 in trials under a wide range of conditions. There are others which have yielded more than NCo 376 in certain conditions. It is opportune to report the results of trials that have been conducted ...

Sugar extraction from cane requires shredding and crushing, both of which are energy intensive activities. Cane shredders account for almost 30% of the total power requirements for the juice extraction train in a sugar mill with four mills. Shredder hammers also wear quickly during the crushing season and need to be regularly maintained or replaced. Microwave pre-treatment of other plant based ...