Ebook: Current status of sugarcane research in India
Author: Lal M., Singh A. K., Tiwari Ajai Kumar
- Tags: Sugarcane -- Research -- India. TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Agriculture / Agronomy / Crop Science Sugarcane -- Research. India. Sugarcane industry.
- Series: Food and beverage consumption and health series
- Year: 2015
- Publisher: Nova Science Publishers
- City: India
- Language: English
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Sugarcane is one of the most important crops commercially grown in about 115 countries of the world. India is a major producer as well as consumer of sugar in the world and has produced about 25MT of sugar from 360MT sugarcane in 2011-13, contributing about 15 percent of the total sugar production in the world. A quantum of sugar is produced from sugarcane, however, this crop faces a number of problems such as low Read more...
Abstract: Sugarcane is one of the most important crops commercially grown in about 115 countries of the world. India is a major producer as well as consumer of sugar in the world and has produced about 25MT of sugar from 360MT sugarcane in 2011-13, contributing about 15 percent of the total sugar production in the world. A quantum of sugar is produced from sugarcane, however, this crop faces a number of problems such as low cane productivity, biotic and abiotic stresses, high cost of cultivation, post-harvest losses, and low sugar recovery. In India, sugarcane research began in the beginning of the 19th