Systematic Planning and Scientific Control of Field Operations

There is evidence that in many cane growing countries field practices have not kept pace with scie~tific progress, and in fact may be lagging far behmd. One of the reasons for this is that there are no yardsticks for measuring productivity in the fields comparable with extraction and other efficiencies that are continuously and accurately cal~ulated in sugar mills in relation to the measured weight of cane processed. The weighbridge at the mill is therefore the dividing line between scientifically controlled processes in the mill and rule of thumb operations in the fields.