Sugar cane plantations have been expanding over a large area of the world for many centuries. During that time, sugar and several types of liquor, particularly rum, have been manufactured in huge quantities. In Brazil, about 300 million L of aguardente de cana are produced annually (Anon., 1953) by distilling fermented cane juice. Although the natural yeast flora of sugar cane juice may contrib...

From Jan 12th to Feb 12th 2008, the most severity cold chilling and freeze injury weather took place during the last 50 years in the southern of China. Sugar-cane was suffered injury severity. However, the losing of sugar-cane which it was aroused by this weather disaster had not been exactitude evaluated till on Apr 1st, 2008. It was not only affected the sugar-cane ordinary harvesting and cru...

This experiment was conducted to evaluate the intake, nutrient apparent digestibility and the effect of total collection days (two and four days) on apparent digestibility estimates for lambs fed diets containing sugar cane treated with calcium oxide (CaO). Eight Santa Inês castrated male lambs with a 16.6±1.8 kg body weight were used. The lambs were distributed in two 4×4 Latin squares, with f...

Recently attention has been focused on cane quality as a means of improving the overall performance of the South African sugar industry. Work by the SMRI pioneered the use of ethanol as an indicator and showed a loss of between 2 and 3% of the mass of sucrose in fresh cane for every 1 000 ppm ethanol on brix. Results obtained during the implementation of this procedure routinely during the 1991...

Sugarcane is a crop valued mainly for the high sucrose content in its cane stalks. Since sucrose is the most essential part of commercial cane sugar (CCS), it automatically becomes the top priority for farmers, and consequently, for breeders and agronomists as well. In the mature internodes, sucrose content can reach around 25% of the fresh weight of the culm. However, the rapid inversion and d...

introduction: sugar cane is a giant plant of grain products. regarding the benefits of the use of medications with herbal origin, in the present study the impact of sugar cane extract on atherosclerosis and ldl-c and hdl-c in the serum of hypercholesterolemic rabbits was studied. materials and methods: 24 adult male new zealand rabbits race with an average weight of 2 kg were classified into fo...

A cane harvesting system which eliminates the use of chain slings has been developed on Illovo's mill-cum-planter estate. A semi-mechanised "split harvesting system" has been adopted. Conventional type trailers are used for infield haulage which off-load loose cane into windrows on the loading banks. Grabloaders then transload the cane from the windrow into "Hilo" cane lorries for transportatio...

The tissue culture derived sugarcane var. CoJ 64 plants attained better height, millable cane height and a greater number of live buds to conventionally raised plants. Further, the plants raised in vitro showed 13.2% increase in cane yield and 11.03% sugar recovery as compared to conventionally propagated sugarcane under parallel agronomic practices in the field, advocating suitability of seed ...

Previous work has shown that there is a relationship between the degree of deterioration of cane and the amount of ethanol present. The use of an ethanol detector for identifying stale cane was investigated at Noodsberg. This tool will enable the cane quality controller to identify areas where cane delays occur and implement appropriate action. The detector uses the infrared absorbance of ethan...

The thermal and exercise tolerances of 165 Sudanese cane cutters were measured in the laboratory and related to work performance and productivity in the cane fields. The results showed that the amount of cane cut per minute in the field was significantly correlated with changes in body weight (r = +0-53) during the third hour of work, aerobic energy expenditure (r = + 0-43), and cardiac frequen...