TITLE:
Optimizing Row Spacing to Ameliorate the Productivity of Spring Sugarcane (Saccharum officinarum L.)
AUTHORS:
Sami Ullah, Shakeel Ahmad Anjum, Muhammad Mohsin Raza, Aamir Riaz, Adeel Abbas, Malik Muhammad Yousif, Jinchuan Ma, Yingxia Liu, Jiajia Zhang, Dingwen Cheng, Yaxin Xu, Iftikhar Ali
KEYWORDS:
Furrow Planting, Quality, Row Spacing, Sugarcane, Trench Planting, Yield
JOURNAL NAME:
Agricultural Sciences,
Vol.7 No.8,
August
25,
2016
ABSTRACT: One of the main reasons behind reduced cane yield is pathetic method of planting. Planting method and row spacing are the most important yield contributing factors in sugarcane. A field experiment was carried out in order to determine quality and yield of sugarcane in various spatial arrangements. Treatments are 180 cm spaced trenches with triple row strips; 180 cm spaced trenches with alternate row strips; 120 cm spaced trenches with double row strips and 60 cm spaced furrow with single row. Perusal of data revealed that 3.6%, 13.4%, 15%, 15.3% more cane diameter (cm), cane length (cm), stripped cane yield (t·haˉ1), sugar yield (t·haˉ1) were obtained from 180 cm spaced trenches with triple row strips as compared to conventional planting method i.e. 60 cm spaced furrows. While the number of millable canes mˉ2, polarity %, cane juice purity %, cane juice %, commercial cane sugar % and cane sugar recovery % remained non-significant by different planting techniques.