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A New Technique for Planting Sugarcane in Egypt. / |
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Egyptian sٍugar journal / / vol.8 - 20/6/2016 |
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اسماء فتحى محمود - مؤلف رئيسي |
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sugar technology - sugarcane - sugar crop |
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Egyptian Farmers traditionally propagate sugarcane using stalk cuttings containing 3 to 4 buds. It takes 5– 6 tons of seed cane /fed (1 fed= 4200 m2) is consumed for planting. This work was carried out at El-Mattana research station, Luxor Governorate, Egypt to examine replacing cane cuttings with bud chips for crop establishment. The dominant cultivar G.T.54-9 was used in this study. Bud chipping machine was used to prepare bud chips that was planted in trays filled with peat moss and vermiculite mixture, or planted in mini plots near the permanent planting field. Direct set planting (conventional method) was carried out using three budded cane sets planted directly in the main field at the same date of nursery preparation.
The study indicated that planting sugarcane using seedlings from bud chips saved about 97% by weight of stalk material. Bud chips planted in trays along with chips planted in mini-plots were statistically higher than conventional method on sprouting and germination percentage.
Seedlings arising on tray recorded higher field survival of 95% as compared to those arising on mini plot (82.5%) under field conditions.
The study showed that bud chip is a viable and economical planting technique for reducing total sugarcane production costs. |
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