The Hindu Business Line : TNAU meet on sugarcane

Fertiliser trials in fields to enhance yield and intercropping are among the package of suggestions handed out to farm scientists engaged in sugarcane research at a meet in the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU). The meeting, held early this week and presided over by the TNAU Vice-Chancellor, was to consider the need to evolve an alternative technology for sugarcane crop, comprising revised fertiliser schedules, mechanisation, and less-expensive crop protection practices to make farming cost effective. Presently, farmers incur a production cost of Rs 85,000, out of the expected gross income of Rs 1.10 lakh per hectare of sugarcane cultivated, making it an input-intensive crop. The university plans to hold a seminar on ethanol production from sugarcane to facilitate evolving a suitable policy framework.

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