A considerable amount of South African raw sugar is sold to export markets. Consistently good filterability of this sugar is important for satisfying the requirements of customers. To the refiner, the filterability of raw melt is important as this affects refinery throughput. Analysis of filtrationimpeding impurities in raw sugar has shown that, among other things, poor juice clarification coul...

EVERY sugarcane grower would like the best levels of performance for all traits, such as high cane yield, high sugar content, resistance or tolerance to biotic and abiotic stress, and every other desirable attribute, all combined together into the same variety. In the real world, however, almost all the important crop traits vary continuously and mostly independently, in genetic populations gen...

Sugarcane is the main sugar producing crop in Bangladesh. However, improvement of this crop through breeding is limited due to lack of genetic diversity. Therefore, genetic variability and diversity assessment are necessarily important for the foreign introduced materials. Experiment was conducted with 9 exotic sugarcane genotypes at Regional Station, Bangladesh Sugar Crop Research Institute, G...

The South African sugar industry harvests in excess of 20 million tons of sugarcane annually. More than 90% of this tonnage is currently being harvested manually. During 2002, the South African Sugar Association Experiment Station’s Agricultural Engineering Department conducted a comprehensive cane cutter survey throughout the South African and Swaziland sugar industries. The primary objective ...

The tissue culture derived sugarcane var. CoJ 64 plants attained better height, millable cane height and a greater number of live buds to conventionally raised plants. Further, the plants raised in vitro showed 13.2% increase in cane yield and 11.03% sugar recovery as compared to conventionally propagated sugarcane under parallel agronomic practices in the field, advocating suitability of seed ...

The sustainability of land management was assessed for a sugar cane plantation using soil Ž . chemical and physical properties as indicators. The plantation 6000 ha was established in 1979 on a broad alluvial plain and the majority of the soils are classified as Eutric and Mollic Fluvisols Ž . Ž . 73% and Eutric Vertisols 23% . Average annual rainfall is about 2000 mm with a dry season Ž from M...