Development of Lever Operated Sugarcane Mother Shoot Cutter for Sustainable Sugarcane Initiative

Manual Sugarcane Cutter Performances in the Southern African Region

The South African sugar industry harvests in excess of 20 million tons of sugarcane annually. More than 90% of this tonnage is currently being harvested manually. During 2002, the South African Sugar Association Experiment Station’s Agricultural Engineering Department conducted a comprehensive cane cutter survey throughout the South African and Swaziland sugar industries. The primary objective ...

Bioconversion of Hemicellulose from Sugarcane Biomass Into Sustainable Products

Mechanisms for the Development of Human Resources in Khouzestan Sugarcane Agro Industrial Company

The purpose of this research was identifying mechanisms for the development of human resources in Khouzestan sugarcane agro industrial company, Iran. This is an applied study and the research method was descriptive correlative. The population consisted of employees working in the sugarcane agro industrial company in the province of Khuzestan, Iran(N=315). One hundred and seventy five people wer...

Categorizing sugarcane cultivar resistance to the sugarcane aphid and yellow sugarcane aphid (Hemiptera: Aphididae).

Sugarcane (Saccharum spp.) in Louisiana is colonized by two aphid species, the sugarcane aphid, Melanaphis sacchari (Zehntner), and the yellow sugarcane aphid, Sipha flava (Forbes) (Hemiptera: Aphididae). The main problem associated with M. sacchari is transmission of sugarcane yellow leaf virus, a casual agent of yellow leaf disease whose absence has been added to certification standards for m...

Economic Fertiliser Recommendations for Sugarcane

Fertiliser recommendations for sugarcane are made with a view to achieving maximum probable yields based on response data derived from decades of research by the South African Sugar Association Experiment Station (SASEX). Adaptations are made according to the experience and knowledge of consultants, but the risks of under or over fertilising are seldom quantified in monetary terms. To address t...