Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications
Tuesday, Jan 20, 2004
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Agri-Biz & Commodities
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Sugar Call for improving sugarcane recovery rates Our Bureau
Coimbatore , Jan. 19 RESEARCHERS who spoke at the two-day national seminar on `Use of Appropriate Varieties and Management Practices for Improving Recovery in Sugarcane' at the Sugarcane Breeding Institute here, stressed the need for improving sugarcane productivity levels and augmenting sugar recovery rates, as there was little scope for increasing the area under cane. Dr Y.S. Nerkar, Director of Agricultural Research and Extension, Vasantdada Sugar Institute, Pune, made a broad comparison of the sugar recovery rates in Maharashtra vis-à-vis Tamil Nadu. Despite the increase in productivity levels, sugar recovery rate was pretty low in Tamil Nadu at 9.6 per cent in 2001-02 compared to 11.6 per cent in Maharashtra during the same period. The Director of Research at the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Dr S. Ramanathan, said identifying and raising cane varieties with high sucrose content would help in improving sugar recovery.
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